Gloucestershire Archives
SOURCES FOR MILITARY
HISTORY
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INTRODUCTION
Military archives held by Gloucestershire Archives are considerable in volume and wideranging in content. The term “military” has been widely interpreted, as explained in the
section below: “Scope of this Guide”. It includes military material of an archive nature
transferred from the Gloucestershire Collection into the archives. This has been listed,
mostly, under reference D9125, but retains the original “Austin” numbers. It also includes
details of material in the Collection itself, which was relocated from the Library to the
Gloucestershire Record Office* in December 2005.
Paul Davidson carried out the initial research for this guide under the Millennium
Commission's Sharing Museum Skill Millennium Awards scheme when he was on
secondment from the North Devon Record Office. Grateful thanks are due to Angela
Newcombe, who checked Paul Davidson’s original draft, identified many additional sources
and went through the final document. The guide was expanded, restructured, edited and
updated by Peter E. Bloomfield, until March 2006 the Deputy County & Diocesan Archivist,
Gloucestershire Record Office. This work was greatly assisted by the completion, in 2005,
of the catalogue of the records of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars (RGH), by Kate
Maisey, Senior Cataloguer. The introduction to her catalogue of that substantial archive
provides a very detailed explanation of the development and content of the RGH and its
records.
THE SCOPE OF THIS GUIDE
This guide covers the records of Gloucestershire’s regular, militia, volunteer and Territorial
Army units and the records held at Gloucestershire Archives relating to the Royal Navy,
Merchant Navy and Royal Air Force. It includes the military experiences of individuals,
various European and non-European conflicts from the late 15th century onwards, civil
defence and military buildings - whether or not these records relate specifically to the county.
In addition to the records held by Gloucestershire Archives (which, from December 2005,
includes the Gloucestershire Collection), the coverage of the Guide has been widened to
incorporate references to the whereabouts of records held elsewhere which may be useful to
the student of Gloucestershire’s military history. These include collections held by the
Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum, the Ministry of Defence and The National Archives.
Finally, the Guide includes an extensive compendium of useful web sites and suggested
background reading.
Peter E. Bloomfield
March 2006
* Please note: In June 2006 the Gloucestershire Record Office changed its name to
Gloucestershire Archives. The new name has been used throughout, expect in instances
where it would be misleading to do so.
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CONTENTS
Summary of Locations of Military Records
Gloucestershire Archives
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6
An Explanation of the Various Types of Army regiment
12
Defence & Fighting Forces
15
Militia: Pre-1757
15
Militia: After 1757
19
Volunteer Infantry and Artillery
27
Gloucestershire Regiment
31
Volunteer Yeomanry Cavalry
37
Fencible Cavalry
40
Royal Gloucestershire Hussars
40
Territorial Force
66
Royal Navy
68
Merchant Shipping
79
Merchant Navy: records held at Gloucestershire Archives
79
Conflicts: Wars & Rebellions
87
Anglo-Saxons & Danes, 1016
87
Holland’s Rising, 1400
87
The Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485
88
The Northern Rebellion, 1537
88
War against Scotland & France, 1543-46
88
French Wars of Religion, 1559-1579
88
The Northern Rising, 1569
88
War with Spain, 1585-1604
89
The Irish Rebellion, 1598-1603
89
The Thirty Years War, 1618-1648
89
The Bishops’ Wars, 1639-40
90
The English Civil Wars, 1642-46, 1648, 1650-51
90
Documents held at Gloucestershire Archives
92
The Monmouth Rebellion, 1685
103
The Glorious Revolution, 1688
103
War of the League of Augsburg, 1689-1697
104
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War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1713
104
The Jacobite Risings
105
The Jacobite Rising of 1715
105
War of the Austrian Succession, 1739-1748
106
The Jacobite Rising of 1745
106
The Seven Years War, 1756-1763
107
Insurrection of the Negroes on Tobago, 1770
108
American War of Independence, 1776-1783
108
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815
109
Anglo-American War 1812-1814/15
122
War Of Greek Independence
122
Afghan Wars
122
New Zealand Maori Wars
123
Crimean War, 1854-1856
123
Italian War of Independence, 1848-1849
126
Indian Mutiny, 1857
126
Zanzibar Rebellion, 1859
127
China War, 1860
127
American Civil War, 1861-1865
127
Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
127
Zulu War, 1879
127
First Boer War, 1881
128
Egypt & The Sudan, 1882-1898
129
Spanish-American War, 1898
129
Second Boer War, 1899-1902
129
Russo-Japanese War 1904-05
131
Balkan Wars 1912-1913
132
First World War (Great War) 1914-1918
132
Russia: Post 1917 Revolution – The Civil War
162
Spanish Civil War
162
1936-39
Second World War 1939-1945
162
Post-War Civil Defence: The Cold War
201
The Korean War, 1950-1953
203
The Suez Crisis, 1956
204
The Six Day War in the Middle East, 1967
204
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Conspiracies & Riots
205
The Gunpowder Plot, 1605
205
The Popish Plot, 1678-80
205
The Gordon Riots, 1780
205
Emmet’s Rebellion, 1803
206
The Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820
206
Military Buildings
207
Castles and Forts [some out-county]
207
World War II Defences
211
Barracks, Camps, Drill Halls, Armouries & Stores
211
Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst (Berkshire)
212
Miscellaneous: Individuals
213
Miscellaneous: Units
221
The British Legion
224
Miscellaneous: Other
225
Searching Ancestors Through Military Records
229
Appendices
233
1
Gloucestershire Voluntary Artillery and Infantry units 1795-1815
233
2. Gloucestershire Voluntary Yeomanry Cavalry units 1795-1830
236
3. The Gloucestershire Regiment’s service
237
4. List of repositories and useful addresses
241
5. Suggested websites
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SUMMARY OF LOCATIONS OF MILITARY
RECORDS
Gloucestershire Archives
Gloucestershire Archives holds the archives of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars (RGH) as
well as many other records relating to militia and volunteer companies, and to the
Gloucestershire Regiment itself. It also holds a wealth of material on the English Civil War,
Napoleonic Wars, First and Second World Wars, and other conflicts dating from the 15th
century to the present. In addition to its archival holdings, Gloucestershire Archives is also
the point of reference for the Gloucestershire Collection, which includes books, journals,
pamphlets and newspapers that feature material of interest to the researcher into military
history.
In the searchroom you will find a number of indexes, catalogues and guides to help you
locate any military records. Please note that all our collections have their own “deposit
number”, each number unique to that collection; this is useful to bear in mind when
searching our indexes and catalogues. Finding aids to the archives come in the following
formats:
1. A Handlist of the Contents of the Gloucestershire Record Office, listed under the bodies to
which the archives relate (local authority, parish, estate, solicitors, etc.). Although this
includes a section on military records the references cited are very limited.
2. A subject index, complete with list of headings, arranged alphabetically by subject. This
gives a brief description of each relevant record, with date and reference number, and
includes printed books and pamphlets, and references to material held elsewhere. Useful
headings to look under include Air Force, Castles, Militia, Military, Navy, War and Weapons.
3. A photographs and illustrations index, arranged alphabetically by a mixture of place and
subject. As with the subject index, this gives a brief description of each record, with date and
reference number. Researchers wishing to consult photographs should be aware that many
of these are kept in a special “cold” strongroom. For photographs that are not ordered up in
advance of a visit there may be a delay of several hours in production to allow time for then
to be held in an intermediate area prior to their delivery to the searchroom.
Indexes may not give the full reference number. To look up an index reference in our
catalogues, make a note of the first part of the reference number - this will comprise the
“deposit number” of the relevant collection. When you know this, you can look for the same
number on the spines of our catalogues and find out more about the record you are
interested in.
4. A comprehensive catalogue, of which the main section is of archive accumulations
received from a wide range of individuals and organisations, prefixed by the letter “D”. There
are separate sections of catalogues for parish records (arranged by name of parish and
prefixed by the letter “P”), for Quarter Sessions records and for the records of Local
Authorities. The catalogues will provide more detailed descriptions of our records, as well as
complete reference numbers. Always consult our catalogues before ordering documents.
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Classification of Gloucestershire Archives holdings
When looking at our indexes you will find a number of different types of reference number,
not all of them numerical. Here is an explanation of most of them:
AC
AG
AR
CC
CBR
CG
CI
CMS
D
DA
DC
EN
FD
GBR
GDR
GE
GMS
GPS
K
L
ME
MF
MI
MS
NA
NS
P
P (no.) a
PA
Pcopy
PE
PS
Q
QT
ROL
S
SA
SM
TBR
TC
TRS
Pamphlets – archives
Pamphlets – agriculture
Pamphlets
County Council (pre-1974)
Cheltenham Borough
Pamphlets
Pamphlets
Pamphlets - County Miscellaneous
Main series of deposited records
District Councils (Pre-1974)
District Councils (Post-1974)
Enquiry Letters
Pamphlets
Gloucester Borough
Gloucester Diocesan Records
Pamphlets
Pamphlets - Gloucester Miscellaneous
Photographs
County Council (Post-1974)
Lord Lieutenant
Pamphlets – medical
Microfilm
Pamphlets – military
Pamphlets - miscellaneous
Pamphlets – national
Pamphlets – newspapers
Anglican Parishes
Parish Councils
Pamphlets
Photocopies
Pamphlets
Petty Sessions
Quarter Sessions
Tewkesbury Borough Sessions
Record Office Library
Schools
Pamphlets - sale particulars
Pamphlets
Tewkesbury Borough
Temporary Committees (housed at Shire Hall)
Transcripts
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The Gloucestershire Collection
This local studies collection holds a large selection of books, journals and articles relating to
Gloucestershire’s military history, as well as local newspapers and some, mostly printed,
original material. All the material is fully indexed, both on-line [LOCATE] and in printed form.
Much of the manuscript material has now been transferred from the Local Collection into the
archives, retaining the numbers allocated by Roland Austin in his Catalogue of the
Gloucestershire Collection, published in 1928. The military related documents included in
these transfers are now prefixed by the Record Office number D9125, although some items
have been incorporated under the Smyth of Nibley reference D8887. The Austin Catalogue
groups some of the military material under specific headings. These include: “Military
History” (sub-divided into “General Works”, “Regimental History” and “Volunteer Movement”),
“The Siege and Civil War” (appearing under the “History of Gloucester” section), “The Great
War” and, under “The History of Bristol”, a section on “The Siege” – referring to the sieges of
1643 and 1645. Some military material is also to be found in the biographical section,
especially in relation to John Smyth of Nibley and Sir Edward Massie. The section on
“Cirencester” includes a number of Civil War tracts and pamphlets.
An extensive holding of local newspapers is an important feature of the Gloucestershire
Collection and there is much of value to the military history researcher in their pages. For the
most part, they are available for reference on microfilm. The oldest is the Gloucester Journal,
1722-1992, which had a circulation throughout Gloucestershire and into neighbouring
counties. The Citizen was established in 1876 and is the most widely read Gloucestershire
paper today, with various local editions. Like the Journal it has a wide circulation. Other
newspapers of which there are substantial runs in the Local Collection are: the
Gloucestershire Chronicle, 1833-1928 [incorporated into the Journal in 1928]; the Gloucester
Mercury, 1855-1884, which circulated in Gloucester and its neighbourhood; the Gloucester
Standard & Gloucestershire News, 1872-1902; and the Gloucester Herald [established 1801
– issues available 1802-1816 with only a few missing; thereafter 1819-20, 1823, 1826-27
and 1828 part only].
There are indexes to births, deaths and marriages that appear in the Gloucester Journal
1880-1914. There is also an index to newspaper cuttings, from 1859, for the following: The
Gloucester Journal, The Citizen, Wiltshire & Gloucestershire Standard, Cotswold Journal,
The Forester, The Stroud News & Journal and The Gloucestershire Gazette. Included in
these are the Gloucestershire regiment, both World Wars and individuals such as Henry
Hook VC and Lieutenant Colonel Carne VC. An index to “Bygones” includes the World Wars
(the First, indexed under “Great War”) and many images. Mr. Done’s Gloucester Journal
Index (blue folders)
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Using the computer to access sources for military history in
Gloucestershire Archives
Researchers can consult the extensive catalogues and indexes in person at Gloucestershire
Archives, or remotely on its web site, using on-line databases.
For the on-line catalogue of archive sources use:
http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/archives
To access the on-line catalogue [LOCATE] for the Gloucestershire Collection:
http://locate.gloucestershire.gov.uk
Another on-line approach is to access the national Access to Archives (A2A) database:
http://www.a2a.org.uk
Other locations
Under some topics in this guide you will find a section showing other repositories holding
original documents relevant to that subject. However, for a more general overview, this
section lists the main repositories of appropriate military material. (Alternatively, a list of
addresses, telephone numbers and web sites for all repositories covered in this Guide can
be found in an appendix).
1. Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum
This museum covers the history of the Gloucestershire Regiment and Royal Gloucestershire
Hussars, and also houses a sizeable library and archive relating to the Gloucestershire
Regiment.
2. The National Archives
The National Archives (TNA) was formed in April 2003 to bring together in one organisation
the Public Record Office and the Historical Manuscripts Commission (see 9 below). The
National Archives holds a large number of central government records relating to the military,
including those of the Home Office and War Office. Most of these date from the 17th to 20th
centuries, and are made up of operational records, as well as service records to 1922.
TNA has an on-line alphabetical list of information leaflets, each of which gives background
information on its subject and on each relevant type of record (with reference numbers and
dates). Their web site includes a section “How to Research Military History”, with a list of
topics, and a facility to search for and download various military documents and campaign
medals.
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3. Ministry of Defence
The Ministry of Defence web site has a comprehensive guide to the whereabouts of British
naval records as well as a section on RAF records. Though the site is less satisfactory on
army records, service papers relating to army personnel can nonetheless be located through
the Ministry’s own Army Records Centre and Army Personnel Centre, as well as the Army
Medal Office. More general historical information can be obtained from the Army Historical
Branch and the Air Historical Branch.
4. Imperial War Museum
The Imperial War Museum holds a variety of military archives from the 20th century, mostly
of high ranking officers, but also the papers of war poets and writers, various other personal
papers, captured enemy records, and copies of relevant governmental papers relating to the
Second World War.
5. National Army Museum
The National Army Museum holds papers relating to the British Army and its predecessors
from the 15th century onwards. It also holds an index of military casualties dating from 1900
and a collection of Victoria and George Cross files.
6. Army Museums Ogilby Trust
The Army Museums Ogilby Trust holds over 1000 boxes of papers arranged by regiment. Its
web site also offers advice on how to research army ancestry, with references to other
collections.
7. Army Records Society
The Army Records Society exists to publish a variety of documents relating to British military
history, and produces selected transcripts annually.
8. National Register of Archives
The National Register of Archives, maintained by the Historical Manuscripts Commission, is
a register of archive collections held throughout the country. It will be able to provide the
whereabouts of any private or specialist military collections.
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AN EXPLANATION OF THE VARIOUS TYPES
OF ARMY REGIMENT
Regular Army
Before the 17th century all able-bodied men were liable to be mustered for military service at
home and, if necessary, abroad. The first permanent military force to be established was the
Yeomen of the Guard, a small body of men constituted by Henry VII in 1485. A truly regular
army only came into being between 1633 and 1680, when five British infantry regiments
were established. The 1st Royal or Royal Scots Regiment was formed in 1633. Charles II
raised the Royal Regiment of Guards in Flanders in 1656, later to be combined, in 1665, with
a regiment raised by Colonel John Russell in 1660. George Monck established the
Coldstream Guards in 1660, and they were constituted the 2nd Regiment in 1661. James II
established several regiments of dragoon guards between 1685 and 1688.
For about 100 years British infantry was divided into Foot Guards and Regiments of the Line,
each regiment being raised by prominent members of society, after whom they were named.
Thus, the Gloucestershire Regiment can trace its origin to the Regiment of Infantry raised by
Colonel John Gibson in 1694. Following numerous changes of command and name, this
regiment was numbered, in 1742, as the 28th Regiment of Foot. In 1882 the 28th was
combined with the 61st Regiment of Foot, which had been the 2nd Battalion of the Buffs
prior to the outbreak of the Seven Years War in 1756. The two regiments had been linked for
recruiting purposes in 1782, when regiments were identified with specific areas (mainly
counties). They were styled the North Gloucestershire Regiment (the 28th) and the South
Gloucestershire Regiment (the 61st). In 1882 they became the 1st and 2nd Battalions of
the Gloucestershire Regiment. In 1994 the Gloucestershire Regiment was amalgamated with
the Berkshire and Wiltshire to become the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire
Regiment.
Non-Regular Army
The militia was a force raised periodically by county for home defence during times of
national threat. The origins lie in the arrangements made by Alfred the Great (872-901) to
combat the Danish threat. It was not, however, until the 16th century that the form of militia
encountered in the bulk of the records covered in this Guide came into being.
1. Pre-1757 county militia and trained bands
In the reign of Henry VIII the office of Lieutenant (later styled Lord Lieutenant) was created.
He took on the duties, formerly discharged by the County Sheriff, of mustering and
commanding the forces raised locally for the defence of the country. The Lieutenant’s work
included making sure that the required levies of men were raised. This was done by parish,
and was the immediate task of the parish constable. All able-bodied men between 16 and 60
were liable for service. Another task was to arrange for the billeting of troops sent into
Gloucestershire from elsewhere.
The Gloucester City Charter of 1560 made four of the officers (mayor, recorder and two
aldermen) deputy lieutenants of the city and county. They were empowered to make
assessments and raise levies of men in the city and In-Shire independently of the Lord
Lieutenant, a situation that lasted until 1662. The “trained bands” of the 16th century formed
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a permanent pool of trained men. In the 17th century, as the country moved towards Civil
War, control over this force in each locality was an important issue. The London Trained
Bands, mustered by the veteran soldier Philip Skippon, helped to deter the King from
storming the capital when the Royalist Army fell back in the face of a substantial body of
men and guns at Turnham Green in 1642. They formed a significant part of the Army that
the Earl of Essex led to the relief of Gloucester in 1643.
For an historical account of the role of the Lord Lieutenant and his deputies see The History
of the Appointment of Deputy Lieutenant in Gloucestershire by David J. H. Smith [CMS 146].
Before 1660 county militias were the chief means of defending the kingdom. By the 18th
century, however, significant weaknesses in the old system were apparent. Consequently,
the 1762 Militia Act and other legislation of the time regulated the militia units and reformed
the basis on which they were levied.
2. The county militia after 1757
The 1757 Militia Act re-established militia regiments in England and Wales as the beginnings
of a modern territorial force and as a counter to the perceived threat of French aggression.
Recruitment was by means of conscription by which men were drawn by ballot from lists of
able bodied men (aged 18-50 from 1758 to 1762, then 18-45 from 1762 to 1831), though
drawn men could delegate substitutes to serve in their place.
In 1802 the definition of “able-bodied” men was refined to prevent the poorest being called
up and leaving their families as a burden on the parish. Nevertheless, families of militia
substitutes were often paid parish relief.
Although militia units could not fight overseas, there was a carefully monitored system
allowing for militiamen to volunteer for service in the regular army. Militiamen could usually
join the army after 3 years service - this was later extended to 5 years.
A general reorganisation of the army, beginning in the 1870s and ending in 1881, led to the
attachments of militia to appropriate county regiments as 3rd or 4th battalions.
3. Volunteer infantry and artillery, and local militia
Volunteer infantry companies are first recorded in the 16th century, though the majority
appear to have been raised between 1794 and 1813, during the French Revolutionary and
Napoleonic Wars. Volunteer soldiers tended to be better off than enlisted militiamen and
usually trained separately. The raising of volunteer forces was formally permitted by
legislation in 1758, and many companies were enrolled in England during the American War
of Independence. An Act of 1782 made the division between volunteers and militia official.
With the invasion threat from Napoleon at its greatest, between 1798 and 1804, the force of
volunteers numbered over 400,000 men. Due to the formation in 1808 of the local militia
(see section 4, below) the voluntary infantry companies dwindled and were dissolved in
1813. The local militia themselves were dissolved in 1816.
Voluntary artillery companies started out as independent, uncoordinated units, which were
legally authorised in 1859, and incorporated as volunteer battalions of line regiments in
1881. They were finally disbanded in 1908. Like the county militia, volunteer infantry and
artillery were not permitted to fight overseas.
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4. Temporary militias raised during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
In 1797 a supplementary militia was formed, to hold as a reserve force after three weeks’
training. This force was embodied in 1798. Anticipating the renewal of hostilities in 1803, an
army of reserve was added to the regular and supplementary militias (see D421 X11/20). In
1805, this was joined with the supplementary militia to form a permanent additional force,
although the Act leading to this was soon repealed due to a shortage of recruits. In 1808 a
large reserve force, the permanent local militia force, replaced the volunteer infantry and
artillery, although the fact that no substitutes were allowed made this an unpopular move.
5. Fencibles
In 1794, the government raised 31 corps of infantry and 21 units of cavalry to further
enhance home defence. These “Fencibles” were recruited as volunteers but paid as
regulars, and could serve anywhere in Great Britain and Ireland.
6. Volunteer Yeomanry cavalry
Volunteer Yeomanry cavalry units operated formally from 1795 to 1921, though smaller,
informal troops were common at least through the latter years of the 18th century before
being amalgamated into county regiments. They were raised on a similar basis to the
volunteer infantry and artillery, during times of perceived national threat and were only liable
for home service. In 1834 these companies were amalgamated as the Gloucestershire
Yeomanry Cavalry (from 1841 the Royal Gloucestershire Yeomanry Cavalry). In 1847, the
regiment adopted the title Royal Gloucestershire Hussars.
Following the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, and the need for mounted infantry in South
Africa, the Imperial Yeomanry was founded specifically for service overseas until the end of
the war in 1902.
7. Territorial forces
In 1907 the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act replaced the militia with the special reserve.
In 1921 the special reserve became known once more as the militia, and then, from 1924, as
the supplementary reserve.
From 1910 the volunteer regiments were incorporated as the territorial force (from 1921 the
Territorial Army). Like their predecessors, the territorial forces were mostly liable for home
service, but could be ordered to fight overseas as support to front line troops where
necessary - as with the 2003 conflict in Iraq.
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DEFENCE & FIGHTING FORCES
MILITIA: PRE-1757
The key records for pre-1757 militia are the muster rolls, dating mainly from the Middle Ages
to the end of the 17th century. Muster rolls were drawn up by the Crown’s Commissioners of
Array, through the help of county and parish officials (from the 16th century the Lord
Lieutenant and parish constable). For each parish, they list all able-bodied men between the
ages of 18 and 60, and the various types of armour available, as well as assessing the lands
and goods of anyone who can provide financial support. However, they only survive for
selected years.
Gloucestershire Archives holds a complete muster list for Gloucestershire entitled “Men &
Armour”, 1608 (ref. D678). A printed transcript of this is available in the Record Office Library
under the title Men & Armour for Gloucestershire in 1608 by John Smith (published by Alan
Sutton, 1980. The Record Office Library [ROL] includes three articles by J.W. Wyatt in the
Gloucestershire Historical Studies (GHS) series:
Men & Armour for Gloucestershire in 1608 [GHS VIII, 1977]
How Reliable is Men & Armour? [GHS IX, 1978]
Men & Armour for Gloucestershire, 1608: the Armour [GHS XI, 1980]
Many references to militia forces in Tudor, Stuart and later times are to be found amongst
the Gloucester Borough Records (GBR). The GBR catalogue contains an extensive subject
index to the volumes GBR B2/1 and GBR B3/1-3 and 6-14 that includes “Military”,
“Weapons” and “Civil War and Commonwealth”. The extracts from the Records of the
Corporation of Gloucester made by W.H. Stevenson for the Historical Manuscripts
Commission 12th Report [Appendix IX, 1991] is useful. They cover some of the “GBR”
volumes listed below.
Records held at Gloucestershire Archives
1486-1648
Official Memoranda Book [the Gloucester “Red Book”] -many references to
musters, numbers and names of men raised, and to events such as the
Northern Rebellion, 1537, and the assistance provided to Queen Mary
against the Duke of Northumberland, 1553.
GBR B2/1
1539
Negative photostats of West Gloucestershire muster rolls
(see catalogue for sub-divisions)
D837
1550/511595/96
Gloucester Chamberlain's Accounts: numerous references to musters in
Tudor times and to the equipment of soldiers. Includes the rising against the
Duke of Northumberland, 1553, soldiers sent to Scotland and the Isle of
Wight, 1559, the Northern Rising 1569/70 and soldiers sent to the Earl of
Essex, 1595/96.
GBR F4/3
1565-1632
Gloucester Common Council Minutes - includes many references to the
training and exercising of soldiers, to billeting and quartering, pay and
equipment.
GBR B3/1
1573
Commission of Array with instructions for training all men liable for military
service
D2153/Aj/1
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1586/87-1619
Gloucester Lieutenancy Order & Letter Book: includes accounts of musters,
assessments, provision of arms and equipment in relation to the threat from
the Spanish Armada, 1588, and subsequent levies for service in Ireland,
Normandy and Brittany.
GBR H2/1
1608
Men & Armour: "The names and surnames of all the able and suffycient
men in body fitt for his Majesties service in warrs … with their ages,
parsonable statures, and armours"
D678/1
Z6/2/1-3
(1608)
Muster at Charlton Kings
TRS 189
n.d.
“The names of such souldiers as are called upon the newe supplye” from
Thornbury, Wotton Hundred, Berkeley, Grumbolds Ash. c.1608
D48/Z6
1618-1642
Gloucester Lieutenancy Order & Letter Book: muster rolls and assessments.
Includes levies for service in the Palatinate and raising volunteers for
service with the King of Sweden, 1631. Various references to the trained
bands and to billeting. Also to the Scots Rebellion, 1638-39 and to service in
Ireland, 1642.
GBR H2/2
1631
Direction to Sir Robert Ducey, Lord Mayor of London, to appoint two
companies of the trained bands and strong watches to prevent tumults
D340a/X1
1632-1656
Gloucester Common Council Minutes: the catalogue includes a subject
index with many references to developments during the Civil War and
Commonwealth period, the Siege of 1643, the defences of Gloucester and
the effects of the Siege.
GBR B3/2
1635
Feoffment of a messuage for the armament of the militia [Tirley]
P334 CH 1/1
1635/36-1654
Gloucester Chamberlain's Accounts: various references to musters, trained
bands and the fortification of the City during the Civil War
GBR F4/5
(1638/9-1645)
The raising and deployment of militia in Gloucestershire, Lancashire and
Hertfordshire
D7115
Vo.I/47, 48,
51, 73 & 74;
Vo.II/26, 39,
43, 49, 50,
52, 58 & 67
1639-1661
Gloucester Lieutenancy Order & Letter Book: includes levying of men for the
Scots Wars, musters and numerous references to the Civil War
GBR H2/3
c.1643-45
Expenses of John Chamberlayne of Maugersbury for quartering troops
TRS/10
1644
Copy certificate that Morgan Hicks had not borne arms in any militia
company
D9125/916
1645-47
Collectors’ book for Parliamentary assessment of Gloucestershire
D149/X2
1653/541662/63
Gloucester Chamberlain's Accounts
GBR F4/6
1656-1686
Common Council Minutes
GBR B3/3
1661-1663/4
Receipts, accounts and papers relating to the provision of a horse and arms
for the militia by Thomas Daunt and others
D979A/F4
1664
Appointment of Sir Baynham Throckmorton as captain of militiamen from
the Forest (of Dean), with note of the number of men due from each parish
D3921/I/56
1673
Appointment of Thomas Burnell as Lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Militia
by the Marquess of Worcester, Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire
D674a/F1
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1677
Appointment of Samuel Webb as Ensign in the Gloucestershire Militia
D149/F252
1677
Warrant to raise militia in the Forest of Dean
D2026/X23
1677, 1680
Receipt for collection for armed forces [Redmarley d’Abitot]
P265 CW 4/1
1684
Constable’s accounts, with references to maintaining and equipping militia
[Painswick]
P244 CO 1/1
1684-85,
1715
Constable’s accounts, including lists of persons providing arms, lists of cloth
delivered to make soldiers’ coats and accounts, 1715; for their manufacture,
pay accounts and accounts for the purchase of arms, etc., 1684-85; return
of persons contributing towards horse and foot, 1715 [Westbury on Severn]
P354 CO 1/1
(1688)
The supply of militiamen in Gloucestershire.
TRS 93
1689
Commission of William Kingscote as Captain of a company of Foot of the
Trained Bands in Gloucester
D471/X1
1693-95
Register with reference to payments to trained soldiers and towards militia
drums and trophies [Stanton]
P307 IN 3/1
1694
Appointment of Richard Hill as Lieutenant in the Red Regiment of Militia in
the Forest division of Gloucestershire
D9125/923
1702
Appointment of an ensign in a Company of the Green Regiment of Militia
raised for service in Kiftsgate Hundred
D2079/III/30
1710, 1715
Assessment of arms, 1710, 1715; subscription to militia, 1715 [Painswick]
1715
Appointment of Thomas Hodges, gentleman, as ensign of the company of
the Red Regiment of Militia Foot raised in the Forest of Dean
P244
CW 4/1-2
D18/201
1715
Appointment of Thomas Locke as ensign, Green Regiment of Militia Foot
D4348
1715
Appointment of Nathan Izod of Westington as Lieutenant of the Green
Regiment of Militia Foot
D5042/X9
1715
Assessment for the provision of 4 foot soldiers and horse [Stinchcombe]
P312 CO 2/1
1715
Return of annual valuation of estates in Charlton tithing chargeable with
finding horse and foot soldiers in militia [Tetbury St. Mary]
P328a
CO 2/1
1715
Record of militia movements
Photocopy
178
1715
Commission of Giles Nash as lieutenant in the White Regiment of Militia
D1637/Z1
1715
Commission of Christopher Bond as captain of militia
D2026/X34
1715
Commission for Walter Nourse as Captain in the Red regiment of Militia
[Forest Division]
D332/F2
1731
Receipt of payment to militiaman [Woolaston]
P376
OV 6/1-3
1744
Bills for soldiers’ clothing
D2026/X38
1749-1834
Batsford constable's accounts referring to the carrying of militia lists
P38 CO/1
[c.1750]
Rough note of overseers’ expenses, with references to militiamen [Stroud
St. Lawrence]
P320a
OV 7/1
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1752-65
Miscellaneous in-letters and papers of Norborne Berkeley, Lord Botetourt,
including militia business, and his appointment as Lord Lieutenant and
Constable of St. Briavels Castle (uncatalogued)
D2700/504/
M14.2, 22
1756-58
Correspondence of Matthew, 2nd Baron Ducie, regarding the Militia and his
resignation from the lord Lieutenancy
D340a/C26
(also MF
394/16)
Records held elsewhere
The National Archives
TNA holds muster rolls for various dates, selected hundreds, c.1535-1640 (check the
National Archives web site). Alternatively, ask for Tudor and Stuart Muster Rolls, Jeremy
Gibson and Alan Dell, 1989 at the Searchroom desk. This gives a detailed list of the National
Archives' muster rolls for Gloucestershire, including dates, locations covered, and
references).
On a more general level, there are Chancery rolls which include commissions of muster and
array, to 1582 (Patent rolls), while the Exchequer‘s military accounts and Treasury of Receipt
diplomatic documents are also useful.
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MILITIA: AFTER 1757
Lists of militiamen came in two forms during much of this period. Militia Muster Rolls or
Enrolment Lists gave simply the names of men chosen by ballot to actually serve; Militia
Lists or Militia Ballot Lists, drawn up annually in most cases, listed all men liable for service.
Although initially various classes of person, such as peers, clergy, teachers and apprentices,
were omitted from the ballot, all able-bodied men were included from 1758-1831. Militia lists
from 1757-58 list names and infirmities, from 1758-1802 names, infirmities and occupations,
from 1802-1806 names, infirmities, descriptions and numbers of children, and after 1806
names, infirmities, descriptions, numbers of children and ages. Ballots were also held for the
supplementary militias, army of reserve and local militias.
Even more wide-ranging were the Levee en Masse lists of 1803-4, which listed, by parish,
not only all men between the ages of 17 and 55, but also all householders, non-combatants
needing evacuation in the event of invasion, and various other categories including millers,
bakers and those holding weapons.
Gloucestershire Archives holds returns and certificates relating to the North and South
Gloucestershire Militia (Q/SO9,11), lists of officers (L/R3) and a register of commissions
(L/A1) and papers concerning the Lords Lieutenants Matthew 2nd Baron Ducie (D340) and
Norborne Berkeley, Lord Botetourt (D2700).
Other common records include payments made by parishes for the relief of militiamen’s
families and the families of militia substitutes and the accounts of borough officials or parish
constables concerned with maintaining militia. Many references to these are to be found
amongst the parish records (P) and Quarter Session Records (Q).
The Gloucestershire Collection includes two editions of Captain W.J. Cripps’ account of the
Royal North Gloucester Militia, 1875 (no.952) and 1915 (no.953).
For useful background, see the following in the Record Office Library [ROL]:
The Royal North Gloucester: Being Notes from Regimental Orders and
Correspondence of the Royal North Gloucester Militia. Compiled by Wilfred Joseph
Cripps, 1875 [ROL D5]
Records of the Militia from 1757 by Garth Thomas, 1993 [ROL H17]
Records of the Militia and Volunteer Forces 1757-1945 by William Spencer, 1997
[ROL H17]
Records held at Gloucestershire Archives
1756-1758
Correspondence and cuttings concerning Matthew 2nd Baron Ducie, Lord
Lieutenant
D340/C26
and box 2
1757
Letter from Robert Rooke concerning recruiting of militia at Stroud
D1833/F2/33
1757
Depositions concerning riots against the Militia Act
Q/SD1
1757-99
References to militia in the Gloucester Journal
GMS 241
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1757-1904
Declarations of deputy lieutenants and militia officers
Q/RAM 1
1758
Indictments concerning riots against the Militia Act.
Q/Sia Epip
1758
1758-61
Letters of Robert Jackson to his sister, written from camps near Winchester,
London and Newnham. Contents include accounts of the social side of the
militia; regimental marches from Bristol to Gloucester and Cirencester to
Winchester; Winchester schoolboys' visit to see exercises; Colonel
Berkeley's mounting guard as private soldier, corporal and sergeant; the
Duke of York's visit to camp.
D153/
131-154,
169, 171
1759
Commission of John Scott of Longborough as captain of a company in the
North Battalion of the Gloucestershire Militia
D1375/38
(1759)
Militia manoeuvres from Almondsbury to Gloucester and Westbury
TRS9
(1759)
Letter from Richard Jackson of Sneyd Park to his sister describing the
rendezvous of militia on Quedgeley Green
D5555/1/4
1759
Treasurer’s report concerning the necessity for a new rate to maintain
militiamen’s families
Q/SR 1759D
1759
Letter from Richard Jackson to his sister, describing the enthusiastic
reception given by Gloucester to the militia
TRS 9
1759-1761
Expenses incurred by the militia battalion in Fairford district
D5954
1760
Militia return concerning John Hooper of Gloucester, militiaman
D10322
1761
Discharge of Richard Packer of Painswick from serving
D149/F95
1763
Payment of bounty
Q/SO 8
1766
Appointment of John Osborne of Monk’s Mill near Wotton-under-Edge as
Deputy Lieutenant in the Militia (as noted in his diary)
D2930/1
1767-1778
Returns and certificates for the raising and training of the North and South
Gloucestershire Militia
Q/SO 9 and
Q/SR
1768, 1803
Order to pay poor relief to the wives of militiamen [Whitminster]
P362 OV 6
1769
Certificate that the South Gloucestershire Militia were raised and exercised
Q/SR 1769B
1771
Notice to John Pollard, servant, to serve as a militiaman
D1651/4/1
1772
Commission of Powell Snell as Captain in the Gloucestershire Militia
D4262/F8
1773
Voucher for militia-related expenses [Charlton Kings]
P76 CO 1/3
1775-99
Original submissions of Daniel Willey as ensign, 1775, lieutenant in the
militia, 1778, and deputy lieutenant, 1798; draft letters concerning the militia,
1799 (uncatalogued)
D1406 F
Daniel Willey
(2)
c.1776-84
Militia accounts [Dursley]
P124 OV 1/4
1777-1804
Granville Sharp’s correspondence with the Duke of Richmond regarding
national defence by a free militia
D3549/
13/1/R4
1778
Commission of Nathaniel Winchcombe (alias Clifford) as Deputy Lieutenant
D149/X26
1778-1810
Orders for payments to the wives of militiamen and to men serving as
substitutes [North Nibley]
P230 OV 6/1
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1779
Copy account of payments to militiamen’s wives [Stinchcombe]
P312 OV 2/6
1779-84
Order for payment and certificate of substitution of militiaman, 1779-81;
orders for payments to militia substitutes’ families, 1783-84 [Woolaston]
P376
OV 6/1-3
1780-1815
Militia substitute certificate, 1803; orders for payments to militia substitutes
and their families, 1780-1815 [Charlton Kings]
P76
OV 6/1-2
1781
Guidelines on payments to the families of militiamen [Bisley]
P47 VE 2/2
1781
Correspondence concerning the enlistment of George Yeend, post boy of
Tewkesbury
TBR B1/
125-138
1781-1809
Accounts of payments to the wives of militiamen [North Nibley]
P230 OV 6/2
1784
Feoffment of Elmore parish lands for the provision of horse and harness in
times of war
D326/R1
1784
Payments for the relief of the families of militiamen and substitutes
Q/SO 10
1790-98
Granville Sharp’s correspondence with William Wilberforce concerning the
arming of Roman Catholics and the need to establish a “free constitutional
militia”
D3549/
13/1/W21
c.1790-1839
Note concerning the fining of Quakers to cover their objection to the
financing of militiamen [Cirencester]
P86/1 VE 4/4
1791-1792
Returns of officers, giving names and abodes, for the North and South
Gloucestershire Militia
Q/SO 11
1792-1802
Various militia papers, mainly concerning payments to militia substitutes,
militiamen’s wives, etc. [Tetbury St. Mary]
P328 OV 6/1
1792-1803
Militia papers, mainly concerning the family of William Maisey [Badgeworth]
P31 OV 6/1
1793
Payment of relief to militia substitute’s wife [Slimbridge]
P298 OV 6/1
1793
Order to pay relief to the family of a substitute [Cricklade, Wilts.]
D1070/IX/51
1793
Commission of Robert Ladbrooke as Ensign in the North Gloucester Militia
D471/X2
1793-1813
Orders for the relief of families of militiamen with substitutes’ certificates
[Cam]
P69 OV 6/1
1793-1814
Papers concerning militiamen and the payment of maintenance to their
families [Bisley]
P47 OV 6
1794
Commission of George Mackenzie Macauley as major in the London militia
[includes signature of William Pitt]
D1571/X195
1794-1799
Accounts of payments made to militia substitutes and their families
Q/SR
1794-1799
1794-1800
Justices’ order to maintain militiamen’s families [Hawkesbury]
P170 OV 6/1
c.1794-1812
Monthly militia payments [Horsley]
P181
OV 2/6-9
1794-1818,
1823-28
Militia accounts [Bisley]
P47a
OV 2/1-3, 57, 9, 11, 15
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1795
List of militiamen’s families to whom relief is paid to other counties as
substitutes, with maintenance order for the family of a militia substitute
[Stroud]
Q/SR 1795A
1795-1800
Quarter Sessions orders regarding the support of the families of militia
substitutes [Cheltenham St. Mary]
P78/1
CW 4/18
1796
Relief of families, North and South Gloucestershire Militias
Q/SO 11
(Trinity)
1796-1800
Certificates and orders for the payment of relief to militiamen’s families
[Cheltenham St. Mary]
P78/1 OV 6
1796-1820
Certificates of orders for payments to the wives of militiamen [Blockley]
P52 OV 6/1
1797
List of the names of balloted men and substitutes sworn and enrolled to
serve in the supplementary militia for the hundred of Brightwells Barrow and
Bradley
D194
1797-98
Militia papers [Westbury-on-Severn]
P354 OV 6/1
1797-1800
Warrants for the relief of the wives and families of militiamen, etc. [Charfield]
P74 OV 6/1
1797, 1808
Orders for payment of militiamen, 1797; certificate of enrolment, 1808
[Kempsford]
P189a
OV 6/1
1798
Commission of John Darke as Ensign in the North Gloucestershire Militia
D4320/3
1798
Justices’ order for payment to militia substitute [Littledean]
P110 OV 6/1
1798
Order to pay relief to the wife of a substitute [South Cerney]
P71 OV 6/1
1798
Militia substitute's allowance [Upton St. Leonards]
Q/SR 1798C
1798
Reference by Charles Edwin, Clearwell, to dining with the north Gloster
Militia
D214/F1/187
1798
Letters to Captain Francis Reynolds RN (3rd Lord Ducie of Tortworth)
concerning the Supplementary Militia and appointments to it
D340a/
C32/46-49
1798-99
Letter and Quarter Sessions order to pay for the maintenance of the family
of the parish’s militia substitute [Welford-on-Avon]
P353 OV 6/1
1798-1803
Militia papers [Whaddon]
P361 OV
6/1-2
1798-1808
Bounty to a balloted militiaman; orders for payments of relief to wives of
militiamen [Rodborough]
P272a OV 6
1798-1812
Warrants for payment to militiamen’s families [Kingswood]
P193 OV 6/1
1799
Commission as Deputy Lieutenant
D149/F150
1799
Payments to militia substitute’s wife
D4693/15
1799
Militia substitutes' accounts
Q/SR 1799B
1800
Letters to Robert Dadd (1754-1839) of Gloucester concerning his efforts to
avoid serving in the militia
D7823/2/5
c.1800
Survey and valuation of arms, Badminton estate, Acton Turville
(uncatalogued)
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D2700
Box A
bundle 5
1800-1802
Payment concerning execution of the Act for raising men for the army and
navy (Epiphany 1800), to settle money paid on account of the militia (1801)
and for conveyance of baggage (Epiphany 1802)
Q/SO 12
1800-03
Papers noting discharge of soldiers; certificates of militia substitutes; orders
for payments to substitutes’ families [Newland]
P227 OV 6
1801
Receipt for substitute payment [South Cerney]
P71 OV 6/2
1801-21
Medical records, probably of Richard Filkin, surgeon to the Royal North
Gloucestershire Militia
D567/1-39
1801-24
Disbursements, including payments for militiamen’s wives [Tetbury St. Mary]
1802
Payments for relief of wives of militiamen and substitutes
P328 OV
2/4-5
Q/SO 10
1802-08
Payments to militiamen’s families [Newnham]
P228 OV 6/1
1802-1816
Militia substitute [Longhope]
P206 VE 2/1
1802-60
Bibury sub-division militia books, 1802-31, minutes 1806-15, notices and
orders, 1845-60
D1070/
VII/63-75
1803
General Return of the Royal Army of Reserve
D421/X11/20
1803
Substitute’s certificate [Charlton Kings]
P76 OV 6/2
1803
Militia certificates [South Cerney]
P71 OV 6/3
1803
Commission to James Agg as Deputy Lieutenant
D855/F8
1803
Names of men from Stroud serving in the Royal North Regiment of the
Gloucestershire Militia
D4693/14
1803
Militiamen’s pay being half that of a substitute for 1 month’s service
[Whaddon]
P361 OV 6/2
1803
Commission of Martin Lucas, Esq., as deputy lieutenant of the South
Gloucestershire Militia
D1142/16
1803
Names of men from Stroud serving in the Royal North regiment of the
Gloucestershire Militia
D4693/14
1803
Certificates of payment, Army of Reserve [South Cerney]
P71 OV 6/3
1803-1804
Order for reward to Daglingworth for supplying militiamen
Q/SR 1804A
1803-08
Orders for payment to militiaman [Chipping Campden]
P81 OV 6
1804
Certificate of enrolment for militia substitute [Kingswood]
P193 OV 6/1
1804
Leave of absence and sustenance allowance for William Jones, militiaman,
Newland
Q/SR 1804D
1804
Examination and certificate of fitness for service in the militia, William Table
Q/SR 1804A
1804
List of volunteers and militiamen in Chipping Sodbury
D2071/E51
1804-22
Miscellaneous papers concerning papers for militia purposes [Deerhurst]
P112 OV 6/1
1804
Letter of William Wilkins, private, North Gloucester Militia, complaining of
assault by his adjutant, Captain Windy
D9125/929
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1805
Order to pay relief to militia substitute’s family [Shipton Moyne]
P291 OV 6/2
1805, 1808
Substitute certificate, Royal North Gloucestershire Militia, 1805; order for
payment to militiaman, 1808; orders regarding poor relief to the wives of
men serving in the Royal North Gloucestershire Militia, 1808 [Rodborough]
P272a OV 6
1806-44
Payment for conveyance of military baggage, Tewkesbury militia
QT/SO3-SO4
1807
Certificate of money paid to the family of a militia substitute, Winchcombe
Q/SR 1807B
1807-09
Commissions of H C Clifford in the Militia and as deputy Lieutenant
D149/X33
1808
Appointment of Shadrach Charleton as adjutant
D4432/2/2
1808
Rate for militia purposes [Tewkesbury St. Mary]
P329/1
OV 1/5
1808
Papers concerning maintenance of the family of a militia substitute
D9125/930
1808
Summons to George Drayton of Chipping Sodbury to serve as a militiaman
Q/SR 1808A
c.1808
List of yeomen, tradesmen, labourers and servants named for appeal as to
service in the Gloucestershire militia
D9125/931
1808-09
Bills for payments to families of militiamen [Gloucester St. Nicholas]
P154/15
OV 6/1
1808-28
Quartermaster’s book of the Royal North Gloucestershire Militia
D1976
1809
Militia substitute’s certificate of service and wife’s application for relief
GBR
G3/Fam/3
1809, 1831
Commission to A Stoughton as Captain in the Oxfordshire Militia and
certificate of service
D979B/F3
1809-16
Overseers’ accounts, with heading under militia [Cirencester]
P86/1 OV 2/1
1810
Militia paper [Frampton-on-Severn]
P149 OV 3/1
1810, 1813
Holding ballot for militia, 1813; payments to militia substitutes, 1810
[Painswick]
P244
VE 2/16
1811
Letter from Hugh Percy, Duke of Northumberland, to Captain Ellis of the
North Riding Yorkshire Militia offering to propose him to the Prince Regent
as adjutant of the Northumberland Militia
D1022/30
1812-13
Papers relating to maintenance of dependants of men serving as substitutes
in the North Gloucester militia
Order to pay constable expenses involved in militia returns [Cam]
D9125/932
1813
Vagrants’ passes issued to the wives of soldiers on foreign service
[Gloucester St. Nicholas]
P154/15
OV 6/2
1813
Provision of militiamen [Minchinhampton]
P217 VE 2/2
1813
Notice of intention to view highway for the militia, St. Briavels
Q/SR 1813B
1814
Appointment of Samuel White as Captain in the Royal North
Gloucestershire Militia
D562
1815-93
Returns to Parliament concerning the militia
Q/CR
1813
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P69 CO 2/4
1818
Act to defray charge of pay, clothing, etc. of the Disembodied Militia, and for
granting allowances
D471/X3
1819,1821
Copy returns of men enrolled in the militia under Act 42 Geo III c. 90 (1802),
giving names and age of balloted men and substitutes
L/R
1819,1825
Appointment of John Mosley as Quartermaster in the Royal North
Gloucestershire Militia
Appointment of Henry W Newman as captain of a company in the Royal
North Gloucester Militia, 1820; and as Lieutenant Colonel within the Royal
South Gloucestershire Light Infantry Regiment of Militia, 1854
D1976/2-3
1822
Order of service for the militia issued to Henry Hitch of Badgeworth: to serve
for 5 years or find a substitute
D7660/2
1825
Militia medical certificate of Henry Goulding
D2513
1825
Certificate of discharge of Thomas Phillips of Awre, cordwainer, from the
Royal South Gloucestershire Militia
D6998/1
1825
Notice issued to Robert Dadd (1796-1847) of Gloucester to appear before
JPs and enrol in the regular militia for 5 years
D7823/3/2
(c.1826)
Certificate for balloted men who provide substitutes for the militia [Edward
Prosser provided as a substitute]
D7823/5/2
1827
Papers regarding the dismissal of Lieutenant Jones from the North
Gloucester Militia and his trial at the Old Bailey for perjury and seduction
D471/X4
1827, c1840,
Removal of the militia, originally called in to deal with Weavers and Chartists
[Dursley]
P124 CW 4/4
1830-37
Letters and circulars concerning the Royal North Gloucestershire Militia,
including printed circular from Whitehall signed by Robert Peel
D471/X5
1830-1895
Militia officer commissions
L/A1
1832
Appointment of George Hawker as Lieutenant in the Royal South
Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment
D3814/2
1836-1872
Register of Commissions of Militia officers
L/A1
1845-1852
Copy admissions of militia surgeons to the Royal College of surgeons
L/X3
1850-1872
Returns to the War Office of officers in the militia
L/X2
1852
Commission of W.O. MacLaine as Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire
D3330
Box 19
1852
Militia quotas by parishes in militia sub-divisions, 1852
L/M1
1852, 185875
Register of volunteers enrolled in the militia under 15 & 16 Vict. C.50, giving
name, occupation and parish
L/R
1853-1870
Notices of militia meetings for training, 1853-70
L/X3
1855-1872
Lists of officers of the Gloucestershire Militia
L/R3
1859
Copy of letter about Dr. Chalmer’s uniform and sword as a Lieutenant and
chaplain in the 2nd Fife Local militia
D1021/3/3
1859-60
Papers concerning the formation of new militia subdivisions in accordance
with Petty Session districts
L/X3
1820, 1854
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D1655/4
1862
Commission of R N F Kingscote as Honorary Colonel of the Royal North
Gloucester regiment of Militia
D471/X7
1863
Press cutting describing the presentation of new colours to the Royal North
Gloucestershire Regiment
D471/X7
1870
Returns to the Lord Lieutenant of permanent militia staff
L/X1
Records held elsewhere
1. The National Archives
In relation to Gloucestershire, TNA has militia lists 1781-1876, supplementary militia lists
1781-1876, and local militia lists (East, North, West and Cotswold militia 1808-1816). TNA
also holds the following records, though not all of these will include references to
Gloucestershire militia:
Monthly returns of recruits and casualties, from 1853
Pay lists, from 1853
Regimental books (including order books, records of officers’ service, letter books,
digests of services, etc.), from 1853
Attestations, from 1853
Correspondence on various militia matters, 1782-1840
Names of commanding officers of supplementary militia regiments, 1803
Marching orders, 1759-1820
Weekly State of the Militia records and Monthly Returns, 1759 onwards
Records of Agent General of the Militia, 1803-17
Attestation papers, all ranks, 1806-1915
Awards of Queen’s and King’s South Africa Medal, after 1899
List of deserters, 1811-20
General registers of military deserters, 1744-1858
Lists of militiamen eligible for pensions, 1830
Registers of marriages of militiamen and of the births and baptisms of their children,
1759-1925
2. Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum
The Museum holds a series of subject-based folders relating to the militia in Gloucestershire.
3. Bodleian Library, Oxford
The Library has Gloucester militia papers, 1794-1807 (see G.R.O. ref. EL 443)
4. National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
Papers of relevance in the National Library are: order to provide a foot soldier in the
Gloucestershire Militia (G.R.O. ref. EL 118 p.189); commission of Thomas Raymond as
Captain in the Gloucestershire Militia, 1773 (G.R.O. ref. EL 118 p.284)
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VOLUNTEER INFANTRY AND ARTILLERY
The records of volunteer infantry and artillery companies held by Gloucestershire Archives
include articles of association, officers’ commissions, order books, registers and muster lists.
Amongst the archive of Clifford of Frampton-on-Severn (D149) is an interesting accumulation
of papers relating to his role in the defence of the county by Nathaniel Winchcombe (alias
Clifford). One group relates to the raising of the Frampton Volunteers, 1798-1800, and the
other to Winchcombe's role as a deputy lieutenant and Inspector for the Whitstone Hundred.
See Some Account of the Frampton on-Severn Volunteers, 1798-1802 by George B.
Mitchell, 1928 (MI 19), The Frampton-on-Severn Volunteers 1798-1802 by George Michell,
1951 (MI 45) and The Frampton Volunteers by J.R.S. Whiting, 1967 in Gloucestershire
Historical Studies (ROL G4), with an off-print from the Journal of the Army Historical
Research Society Vol. XLVIII, 1970 (MI 24).
An account of the Tockington Volunteers is included in the Olveston Parish Historical Society
Occasional Paper No.3, 1971 (D4764/4/5). See also, The Coln Valley Volunteers of 18031815 by Brigadier H. Bullock, 1958 (MI 16).
The records of the Corps of Dursley Volunteer Infantry, 1804-07, were amongst the original
material transferred from the Gloucestershire Collection (D9125/8418-8426).
Roland Austin’s Catalogue has a section on “Volunteer Movements” which includes The
Camp Echo (published daily during the encampment of the Gloucestershire volunteers on
Stinchcombe Hill, 1882) and The Sapper (the Journal of the Gloucestershire Engineer
Volunteer Corps, 1882-83).
See appendix for a list of Gloucestershire volunteer infantry and artillery units 1795-1815,
and also An Alphabetical List of Artillery and Infantry Corps in Gloucestershire 1795-1815:
copy of a list held by Brigadier Bullock, 1957 (EL 94).
Records held at Gloucestershire Archives
1790
Letter suggesting that John Parsons take command of the Winchcombe
Infantry Volunteers
D214/F1/94
1793
Lines spoken at the consecration of the standard of the 1st Troop of the
Royal Gloucestershire Gentlemen & Yeoman Cavalry at Cheltenham
D2663/Z11
1796
Agreement to form a Volunteers corps in the Cotswolds
D6755/1/1/20
1796
Letter requesting that subscribers to the fund for raising the Corps of Loyal
Bristol Volunteers be exempted from paying the proposed new levy of
cavalry
D421/X6/22
1796, 1860
Formation of a volunteer corps in the Cotswolds and Stroud
D6755/1/1/20
1798-1800
Papers relating to the formation, equipment and mustering of the Frampton
Volunteers, including muster rolls
D149/X17-21
1798-1803
Extracts from documents concerning the Loyal Stroud Volunteer Corps and
other volunteer troops in the area
D4851
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1799
Act of Parliament for exempting persons serving in the Volunteer Corps
from the militia ballot
D149/X15
1799
Order to pay volunteer [Mitcheldean]
P220 OV 6/1
1799, 1801
Stroud Volunteers: addresses, 1799 and committee resolution, 1801
D4693/14-15
1800
Act of Parliament for indemnifying persons serving in the Volunteer Corps
from Hair Powder tax
D149/X16
1801
Payment to Volunteer infantry and reference to an ox and two sheep roasted
on the event of peace
D1610/
A81-82
1802
Circular letter to the lords lieutenants of the counties concerning the raising
of volunteer corps
D421/X11/17
1802
Letter of thanks (printed) from Parliament and the Secretary of State to all
Volunteer corps
D149/X22
1802-03
Tetbury Volunteer Infantry: papers, including muster rolls
D566/Z13
1802-03
Printed Acts of Parliament on Volunteers
D566/Z14
1803
Circular letter from Lord Hobart [Secretary for War] to the Lords Lieutenant
for raising the Volunteer Corps, with copy of Act 43 Geo. III c.96
D421/X11/17
1803
Instructions (printed) relating to Volunteer corps in Gloucestershire
D149/X23
1803
Lists of Fretherne and Stinchcombe Volunteers
D149/X29/1
1803
Resolutions of a meeting in Dursley to take “the most effectual measures to
co-operate … in the general defence of the Nation”
Commission of John Nourse as Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the
Archenfield Volunteer Infantry, Herefordshire, 1803
D9125/8418
1803
Muster roll of the Winchcombe Volunteers
D2218/3/72
n.d.
Badge of Tockington Regiment (established 1803)
D2604/2/181
n.d.
Copy regulations, Loyal Cotswold Volunteer Infantry (established 1803)
D6755/4/1
1803-1804
Correspondence and papers relating to measures taken for defence,
including lists of special constables in Whitstone Hundred and returns of
horses and wagons.
D149/X29
1803-1804
Register, including returns of men enrolled in the 20th Glos. Rifle
Volunteers, 1859-60
L/R
1803-05
Bills for dinner, uniforms, etc. of the Dyrham, Hinton and Doynton
Volunteers
D1799/
A396-398,
C173
1803-07
Records of the Dursley Volunteer Infantry including Captain John Vizard’s
commission, muster rolls, Rules and Regulations, paymaster’s cash book
and muster reports
D9125/
8418-8426
1804
General order for Infantry exercise and drill
D149/X24
1804
List of volunteers and militiamen in Chipping Sodbury
D2071/E51
1804
Commission of Samuel Clutterbuck in the Stonehouse Volunteer Infantry
(uncatalogued)
D1815
1803
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D332/F2
1804
Commission of Sam Trueman as Captain in the Tewkesbury Volunteer
Infantry
D760/19
1804
Receipt of Dudbridge Volunteers and King’s Stanley Rifle Corps
D149/X29/42
1804-05
Papers concerning a slight cast upon the King’s Stanley Rifle Corps in an
article in The Gloucester Herald following a shooting match with the Severn
Rifle Corps
D9125/967
1805
Commission of John Holbrow as Lieutenant in the Severn Volunteer Rifle
Corps (uncatalogued)
D1512
1805
Presentation of colours to Tetbury and Horsley Volunteers
D3549/27/5/1
1806
Draft notice asking for new volunteers to meet at Frampton church
D149/X25
1806
Commission of John Singleton Clarke as lieutenant in the Devizes corps of
Wiltshire Volunteers
D2025
Box 113
1806
Commission of J Heskins as Lieutenant in the Tetbury and Horsley
Volunteers
D2424/16
1807
Commission to John Boulton as ensign in the South Worcester Volunteer
Infantry
D2957/
134(5)
1807
Names of men serving in the Severn Rifle Corps
D4693/14
(1808,1813)
Transcript: the Horsley Corps of Volunteer Infantry commanded by Major
Wilbraham, permanent duty at Chepstow, June 1808; Horsley and Tetbury
Volunteers, 1813
PA 181/3
1811
Commission of Richard Capes as a Lieutenant in the Horsley and Tetbury
Volunteer Infantry
D2859
1813
Justices’ resolution for subscription to pay volunteers for the local militia
[Littledean]
P149 VE 2/2
(1813)
Transcript of muster roll of the Horsley and Tetbury Volunteers (held in The
National Archives, (PRO WO/13 4351)
MI 49
1835
Commission of W.H. Hyett as Captain in the Stroudwater Volunteers
D6/X3
1852,
1858-75
Register of volunteers enrolled in the militia under 15 & 16 Vict. C.50, giving
name, occupation and parish
L/R
1853
Accounts of pay and allowances, possibly for an annual camp
D871/X3
1859
Minutes of meeting to form a volunteer rifle corps in the Forest of Dean, with
lists of men
D36/Z2
1859-60
Rules of the 11th [Dursley] Rifle Volunteers with copy of a speech by Purnell
Bransby Purnell when the oath of allegiance was administered
D9125/
8430-1
1859-1900
Stroud Volunteer Rifle Corps: orderly book, 1859-91 and ledgers, 1888-1900
D1426/1-3
1860
Commission of Thomas Commeline as a lieutenant in the Glos. Rifle
Volunteer Corps
D1233/37
1860-96
Muster roll of the Cirencester Volunteer Rifle Corps
D1551
1877
Nominal roll of the Coleford and Newnham Companies of the Glos. Rifle
Volunteer Corps
D1768/3
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1886
Appointment of a Henry Privett Thurston as a Lieutenant in the Volunteer
Forces, 1st (City of Bristol) the Gloucestershire Regiment
D866/X3
c.1900
Photograph of Dursley Volunteer Rifle Brigade at camp at Farnborough
GPS 124/50
1915
Churchdown Volunteers and the Churchdown platoon of the Gloucestershire
Volunteer Regiment
D3398/2/2/21
1915-1917
Lydney Volunteer Corps: minutes and news cuttings
D5627/7/6
1916-18
Muster roll, Platoon 20, E Co., Glos. and Cheltenham Battalion, Glos.
Volunteer Regiment
P112a MI 1
1960s
Essay by Olveston Parish Historical Society on the Tockington Regiment
D2604/1
1983
Cutting from the Gloucester Journal concerning music dedicated to the
Gloucestershire Volunteers
D3558/118
Records held elsewhere
1. The National Archives
Records held by TNA include the following, though not all will have references to
Gloucestershire: Regiment books, registers of commissions, 1798-1825, establishment
books of volunteer corps, 1802-8, records relating to the organisation, manning, formation
and disbandment of units, and their transfer to the territorial forces, and lists of long service
medals, 1892-(1932).
2. Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum
The Museum holds annual “Army Lists”, providing details of officers and brief information on
local units. There are also references to volunteer units in the Museum’s regimental history
binders.
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GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT
The history of the Gloucestershire Regiment is fairly complex, comprising not only regiments
of the regular army, but also militia and volunteer units.
1. Regular army
In 1694 a regiment of infantry was raised by Colonel John Gibson during the War of the
Spanish Succession. In 1751 the regiment became known as the 28th Foot. A further
infantry regiment, raised in 1756 during the Seven Years War as the 2nd battalion of the
Buffs, became known in 1758 as the 61st Foot.
In 1782 a new recruiting system linking regular army regiments with specific locations led to
the 28th Foot adopting the subsidiary title North Gloucestershire Regiment, and the 61st
Foot the title South Gloucestershire Regiment.
After 1881, the two regiments were incorporated as 1st and 2nd Battalions of the new
Gloucestershire Regiment, with attached depot companies and a training depot at Horfield,
Bristol. In 1948, both battalions were united into a single 1st battalion.
In 1994 a major reorganisation took place with the formation of the Royal Gloucestershire,
Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment (RGBW). It comprised one regular battalion (the 1st) and
two Territorial Army companies: the Rifle Volunteers (Gloucester/Bristol) and the Royal Rifle
Volunteers (Reading/Swindon). Ten years later even more extensive reorganisations were
announced, with the aim of streamlining the Army by the amalgamation of twenty-three
regiments into six. Under this it is planned that the RGBW, the Devonshire & Dorset Light
Infantry, the Royal Green Jackets and the Light Infantry will merge, in 2007, to form “The
Rifles”. This name has historic connotations, remembering the role of the Rifle regiment in
the Peninsular War, the theatre of war in which Sir John Moore and Arthur, Duke of
Wellington operated against Napoleon’s forces in Spain and Portugal.
2. Militia
Between 1759 and 1763, the various units of Gloucestershire county militia were united as
the South Gloucestershire Militia, with its headquarters at Gloucester (later at Bristol) and the
North Gloucestershire Militia, with its headquarters at Cirencester. In 1795 the regiments
adopted the titles Royal South and Royal North Gloucestershire Militia. During the
Napoleonic Wars these regiments were stationed at Weymouth, and after a period guarding
the Sussex coast, the Royal North Gloucesters adopted the nickname “Brighton Guards”. In
1881 both regiments were amalgamated into the Gloucestershire Regiment as 3rd and 4th
battalions. In 1908 the 4th battalion was disbanded and the 3rd battalion maintained as a
training unit.
3. Volunteers
The volunteer infantry companies raised in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to counter
the threat of French invasion were disbanded after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. However,
fears of further French aggression in the mid-19th century led to the formation of the 1st
Gloucestershire (Bristol) Rifle Volunteers and 2nd Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteers.
These volunteer regiments were incorporated into the Gloucestershire Regiment as 1st, 2nd
and 3rd volunteer battalions. After the advent of the territorial force in 1907, these three
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battalions were re-styled the 4th, 5th and 6th territorial battalions of the Regiment. During the
First World War, each of these battalions raised two separate additional line battalions, the
2/4th, 3/4th, 2/5th, 3/5th, 2/6th and 3/6th, while a 7th battalion was also raised for active
service at this time.
In 1938, the 4th and 6th battalions were reorganised as the 66th Searchlight Regiment,
Royal Artillery and the 44th Royal Tank Regiment respectively, and so were lost to the
Gloucestershire Regiment. The Second World War saw further changes in the territorial arm
of the regiment. A new 7th battalion was founded from the 2/5th battalion, while the 5th
battalion was reconstituted as the 4th Reconnaissance Regiment. In 1961, the 66th
Searchlight Regiment (by then the R. Bty. 311 Regiment, Royal Artillery) and the re-styled
5th battalion (Territorial Army) were amalgamated, assuming the title “City of Bristol”.
(See appendix 4 for a list of the Gloucestershire Regiment’s battles and spheres of service).
Records held at Gloucestershire Archives
(1706-1900)
Roll of Battle Honours for the Gloucestershire Regiment
D653
1745
Commission of Maynard Colchester as Captain in the Glos. Regiment of
Foot
Settlement examination of Mary Browning otherwise Bird, of Rodborough,
whose husband may have died in service at Alexandria
D36/F13/30
1826
Plans of the Gloucester Regiment war memorial at Hooge, Belgium
(uncatalogued)
D2593
(1869-1902)
Will of Reginald Edward Guise and notes on his service with the Buffs
MI 37
1877
Description of deserter from the 61st Foot circulated to parish officers
[Cheltenham St. Mary]
“I” Company of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion: rifle competitions
P78/1 VE 3/4
1885
Letter mentioning the 2nd Volunteer Battalion’s annual summer
encampment on Stinchcombe Hill
D7442/6
1885-95
Records and correspondence of the Thornbury Detachment of the 1st
Volunteer Battalion
D1578
1887
Report of Jubilee Year Camp at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Volunteer
Regiment
TBR E3
1894-1913
2nd Volunteer Battalion: band & finance committee minutes and accounts
D1815
Box 4/5-8
1897
Article on the regiment by Captain Lovell in The Army and Navy Illustrated
D3549/31/1/2
1899-1901
Journal of an unnamed soldier during the Boer War
D7474
1905-06
Papers regarding Sneedham’s Green Rifle Range, Upton St. Leonards,
including agreements for use by the Volunteer Battalion of the
Gloucestershire Regiment
CC/AC/
C2/3-11
1914-1918
Records relating to recruitment, casualties and decorations, with
photographs of the Regiment in action
D4180/1-4
1915
News cuttings concerning the 9th Glos. Regiment’s visit and the Elkstone
Military Volunteers
P135
IN 4/7/7
1916-19
Official war diary of the 2/5th Battalion
MI 30
1803
1883-86
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TRS 19
D6755/1/20
1917
1/5th Gloucesters: letter of condolence from the British Red Cross to the
mother of a Gloucester soldier killed in action
D7318/4
1918,1919
Printed Regimental Orders of the Gloucestershire Volunteer Regiment
TBR E3
c.1920
Gloucester Regiment - uniforms through the ages, 1801-1903
MI 42
1921-32
Records concerning the placing in Christ Church, Cheltenham of the 10th
Battalion’s colours and the erection of a temporary First World War
memorial on the Somme.
P78/3
CW 3/4
1930
A history of the 2/5th Battalion, 1914-18, compiled from letters, diaries and
reminiscences
D2431/1-4
1930-49
Architects correspondence, 1/5th Battalion Ex-Officers’ Association
(uncatalogued)
D2593
1936-39
Papers of an officer in 5th Battalion
D5412/VIII/3
1944
“B” Company, 7th Battalion: nominal rolls, stand down programme, parade
arrangements, etc.
D264
1948
Correspondence and papers concerning the re-dedication and return of the
colours of the 5th Battalion (T.A.)
GBR
L6/22/10
1954-65
Plans of Matson Reservoir Camp, Robinswood Barracks
D7040
1970
Order of service for the commemoration of the Battle of the Imjin River,
Korea, 1951
MI 42
1972
Order of service at Gloucester Cathedral for the 1st Battalion on the
completion of their tour of duty in Northern Ireland
TBR E59
1987
Appeal brochure for regimental museum
D2972/2/28
Photographs and illustrations held at Gloucestershire Archives
1900
Volunteers for South Africa on board the Guelph, Southampton
GPS 613/8
c.1900
Band in Corps of Drums
GPS 613/1
c.1900
Shooting and football teams
GPS 613/2
c.1900
Officers’ mess
GPS 613/4
c.1900
Signal Section
GPS 613/5
c.1905
4th Battalion: recruits' church parade
GPS 86/82
1905-06
Signallers, 2nd Glos. Regiment football team
GPS 613/6
Pre-1914
Postcard with history and uniform
GPS 613/7
Early 20th
century
1917
Members of the regiment at Tidworth, Hampshire
GPS 613/15
1st Battalion at the Bustard Camp
D5079/13
Early 1920s
Soldiers working with a tractor
GPS 613/14
1950s
Presentation of colours
D5049/3/79
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1957
Regimental band
D5049/3/119
1970
Regiment marching through Cheltenham
D3435/49
Record Office Library [ROL] and Pamphlets
1930
The story of the 2/5th battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, 1914-1918 by
A.F. Barnes
ROL D5
1931
The Gloucestershire Regiment in the War, 1914-1918 by Everard Wyrall
ROL D5
c.1945
Glorious Gloucesters, an appreciation of the 5th Glos. Regiment by F.W.
Harvey
P88 MI 7
1952
Now thrive the armourers by Robert O. Holles
ROL D5
n.d.
The Slashers. A new short history of the Gloucestershire Regiment. 16941965 (author’s name not given)
MI 50
1970
The Glorious Glosters. A short history of the Gloucestershire Regiment,
1945-1970 by T. Carew
ROL D5
1975
Cap of Honour. The story of the Gloucestershire Regiment (28th/61st Foot)
1694-1950 by David Scott Daniell
ROL D5
1976
The Imjin Roll by Colonel E.D. Harding
ROL D5
1987
A private in the Gloucesters 1931-32 etc., by J.R. Scarr
PA 316/10
1992
The Glosters. An illustrated history of a county regiment by Christopher
Newbould and Christine Beresford
ROL D5
The Gloucestershire Collection
For details, see Roland Austin’s Catalogue of the Gloucestershire collection, 1928, and the
LOCATE computerized catalogue. The Collection includes a selection of books, journals and
articles on the history of the Regiment and its individual battalions. It features various printed
ephemera, including: menu and toast list for 19th annual re-union dinner of the 1/5 Battalion,
1938; citation of the 1st Battalion for extraordinary heroism in action near Solma-ri, Korea,
1951; regimental Christmas card to the curator of the Gloucester city museums, 1952; cine
film of the reception of the Gloucestershire Regiment in Gloucester after the Korean War,
(1952); recruitment poster, c1914-18.
Records held elsewhere
1. Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum
The Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum is the main repository for records relating to the
Gloucestershire Regiment. Please note also that although the archives are open to the
public, access is by prior appointment only. The Museum houses a wide variety of written
records, photographs, scrapbooks and printed sources, some of the most useful of which
include the following:
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Army Lists, 1661 onwards. This was produced regularly from 1754 onwards. The
printed volumes are arranged by regiment and contain the names of all officers, with
details of war service from 1881. Separate sets of army lists, from 1798, cover nonregular units.
Regimental history binders, covering various Battalions, campaigns, etc.
from the 17th century to c1994
Part I Orders, mostly 28th and 61st (1st and 2nd battalions) (1907-94);
Standing Orders, 1967-68 a. Part 1 orders cover the day to day running of a particular
unit in great detail, including the names of orderly officers, monthly fittings of clothing,
inspections, officers’ lectures and examinations, disciplinary procedures, concerts,
competitions and firing range practice.
War diaries for various battalions,1914-8; War diary, 61st (2nd battalion), 1940-44.
The information contained can range from single-word entries, through details of the
units movement or billeting, to lengthy accounts of action.
Description book, 28th, 1849-60. These list the Regiment’s recruits, giving details of
each man’s age, home, date and place of enlistment, religion, trade, and physical
description.
Digests of service, 28th and 61st, (c. late 18c onwards). Digests were, in effect,
battalion journals, showing what each battalion was doing at a given time and also
providing details of individuals. They can also provide a wealth of other detail,
including lists of battles and military operations, the names of officers killed or
wounded in action, the names of all ranks who have distinguished themselves in
action, lists of badges and devices, nominal rolls of officers, alterations in
establishment (the numbers of separate ranks), and alterations in clothing and
colours.
Correspondence of D.O.’s, 1931-67
Personal accounts, 1694-1954
Albums and scrapbooks, 1694-1914; a register of these is available, arranged
chronologically and by battalion, with brief descriptions of subject matter
Herman Long Library, indexed, including descriptions of campaigns, details of service
of officers, biographical accounts, and scrapbooks, one containing portraits of officers,
18th-19th centuries
Regimental newsletters, 1945-93
The Back Badge/The Sphinx and Dragon - the regimental journals of record,1914
onwards
Files covering individual campaigns, various dates
Korean War records (Imjin Roll) - a list of all combatants, with records, and
information on prisoners of war, 1951-52
List of regimental casualties, First World War, Second World War and
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Korean War, c1914-52
Index of obituaries
Regimental medal rolls, various dates
It must be stressed that these records are only a small part of what is actually held.
2. The National Archives
Designations, establishments and stations of regiments, 1803-c1983
Disposition and movement of regiments, c1737-c1950
Embarkation and disembarkation returns, from 1758
Establishments, 1661-1846
Inspection returns, 1750-1912
Marching orders, 1683-1852
Monthly returns, 1759 onwards. These show where all units of the army were
stationed each month
Correspondence of the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, to the 1830s
Letters and papers addressed to the Secretary for War, to 1868
Military Correspondence of War and Colonial Office, 1801-55
Headquarters records, late 18th century to early 20th century
Papers assembled by the Director of Military Operations and Intelligence from 1837
Maps and plans, mostly of forts, barracks, etc.
For the period after 1945, Cabinet records (to 1973)
War diaries, papers, reports, etc. relating to the Korean War
3. City Museum and Art Gallery, Gloucester
“Drummer and Private, the Glos. Regiment, 1813”, watercolour by D.H. Edwards
(Gloucestershire Archives ref. EL335)
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VOLUNTEER YEOMANRY CAVALRY
The state and type of record existing for volunteer yeomanry cavalry units is much the same
as for volunteer infantry and artillery. (See appendices for a list of Gloucestershire yeomanry
cavalry units 1795-1830).
Records held in Gloucestershire Archives
Gloucestershire Archives holds the returns of muster rolls of the Royal Gloucestershire
Yeomanry Cavalry, 1846, 1870-71 (ref. L/R2) and various records relating to the Wotton
Troop [D1770] and the Dodington and Marshfield Troop, 1830-96 [D1610/X6-11]. The D1610
records include a quartermaster’s book, 1831-33, register of arms, 1831-33, muster
attendance register, 1830-33, accounts, 1831-34, and printed rules, regulations, orders, and
a roll of members 1831-96. Amongst the original material transferred to the Record Office
from the Gloucestershire Collection were the records of the Dursley Volunteer Troop of
Cavalry, 1798-1803 [D9125/8413-8418]. The Office also holds records of the Wiltshire
Yeomanry Cavalry, Devizes and Malmesbury troops [ D1571/X7, 16-18, 168-176, 184, 189].
Useful background material is to be found in the following:
The Yeomanry Cavalry of Gloucestershire and Monmouth by Wyndham Quin, 1898
(ROL D4)
The Cotswold Volunteers Yeomanry, 1797-1802 by Brigadier H. Bullock [reprinted
from the Wiltshire & Gloucestershire Standard, 1957] (MI 15)
Ciceter's First Yeomanry - the Cirencester Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, 1803-15
[reproduced from the Wiltshire & Gloucestershire Standard, 6 April 1957] (MI 11)
The Yeomanry and Volunteers of the Fairford District by Brigadier H. Bullock
[reprinted from the Wiltshire & Gloucestershire Standard, 17 August 1957] (MI 14)
1789, 1799
Commission of John Wallington as Lieutenant in the Dursley Gentlemen &
Yeomanry; and as Deputy lieutenant
D149/
F149-150
1794-1805
Miscellaneous papers concerning the administration of the Malmesbury
Troop of the Wiltshire Yeomanry
D157/X16-18
(1795-1796)
Photocopies of items in the Gloucester Journal relating to the formation of
Yeomanry troops
D4920/2/1/1
(Late 18th
century)
Photograph, 1984, of painting of Captain Charles Robert Morris, chairman of
Gloucester troop of gentlemen yeomanry
D4920/2/1/2
1797
Commission of Charles Brandon Trye, F.R.S. as surgeon to the Gloucester
Yeomanry
D303/F1
1797-1803
Papers of the Wotton Troop of Gloucestershire Yeomanry. Includes
Commission of Humphrey Austin as Captain, appointments of chaplain and
surgeon, letter from Lieutenant Gen. Rooke appointing Gloucester as a
place of rendezvous in the event of enemy landing and letters about
equipping the troop.
D1770/1-31
1803
Commission of John Nourse as major in the Provincial Cavalry,
Herefordshire, 1803
D332/F2
1797-1823
Minute book of the Royal Gloucester Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry
D4920/1/1
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1797-1803
Papers of Humphrey Austin senior relating to the Wotton-under-Edge Troop
including correspondence, statements of pay, returns of officers and other
ranks, and notes of ammunition.
D1770/1-31
(1798)
Extract from a document about the Wotton-under-Edge Troop
TRS 215
1798
Commission of John Wallington in the Dursley Gentlemen and Yeomanry
D149/F149
1798
Commission as cornet in the Malmesbury Troop of the Wiltshire Yeomanry
D1571/X7
1798-1803
Records of the Dursley Volunteer Troop of Cavalry including deed of
enrolment, minutes of meetings of the committee, treasurer’s book, and
commission of John Vizard as cornet.
D9125/
8413-8417
1799
Letter resigning commission in the Devizes Yeomanry, Wiltshire
D1571/F656
1800, 1803
Letters from the 5th Earl of Berkeley concerning arms for the Wotton Troop
D1770/33-34
1800-1864
Correspondence, etc. relating to the Devizes Troop, Wiltshire
D1571/
X168-176
1802
Commission of Thomas Estcourt (1748-1818) as major in the Wiltshire
Yeomanry
D1571/X19
1803
D9125/8418
(1803-1815)
Resolutions of a meeting in Dursley to take “the most effectual measures to
co-operate … in the general defence of the Nation”
Notes about the Cirencester troop
1805
Reference to a corps being founded in Cheltenham
D5130/4/1
1806-09
Letters, mainly concerning Yeomanry matters, from William Lloyd Baker to
Thomas J Lloyd Baker
D3549/
22/2/15
1808
Order Book of the Dursley troop of Gentlemen & Yeomanry
D3549/
22/2/16
1809
Names of men from Stroud serving in the Longtree, Bisley and Whitstone
Troop of Cavalry
D4693/14
1810-12
Accounts of the Yeomanry Cavalry, Cirencester
TRS 78
c.1831
Letter concerning the inadvisability of magistrates joining the Yeomanry to
put down disturbances
D149/F52
1831
Papers concerning the establishment of the Dursley corps of Yeomanry
Cavalry
D9125/
8427-8
1831
Notice of meeting to form a yeomanry cavalry, with list of persons attending
[Dursley]
P124/MI 4
1831
Open letter defending yeomanry conduct during the Bristol riots
D1610/X20
1831
Commission of Thomas Grumston Bucknall Estcourt as a Captain in the
Tetbury Troop
D1571/X65
1831
Extracts from the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry Cavalry,
Doddington & Marshfield Troop, attendance register
TRS 14
1831
Commission of C W Codrington as captain in the Marshfield Troop of
Yeomanry
D1610/X6
1831
Congratulations from Captain Codrington to the Dodington & Marshfield
Troop
D1610/X11
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D4920/3/3/8
1831-34
Letters and orders concerning the Tetbury Troop
D1086/X22
1831-38
Order book of the Tetbury “D” Troop
D4920/1/2
1832-35
Thomas Barwick Lloyd Baker: commission of appointment in the Yeomanry
cavalry
D3549/25/5/1
1836
Printed rules of the Malmesbury Troop, Wiltshire
D1571/X173
1836-63
Statements of strength of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry, with rolls
of members, orders of the Devizes and Tetbury troops, and lists of
promotions and appointments
D1571/
X173, 176
1837
A list of officers of the Yeomanry Cavalry of Great Britain
D1571/X175
1839
Copy rules and regulations of the Doddington Troop (uncatalogued)
D6822/73
1839
Letters, orders and other papers relating to the assembling of the Wiltshire
Yeomanry on the occasion of the Chartist riot in Devizes
D1571/X118
1840
Rules of the Gloucestershire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry
MI 18
1843
Rules and regulations of the Royal Gloucestershire Yeomanry Cavalry
Regimental Fund
D3979/4
1844-98
Malmesbury Troop, Wiltshire: commissions in the yeomanry
D1571/X184,
189
1879
Certificate of appointment of Lionel Darell as Captain in the Yeomanry
D228/F2
n.d.
Poem on the Stow cavalry
D6755/1/1/20
2003
Posters advertising exhibition at Chepstow about Nathaniel Wells of
Piercefield near Chepstow and St. Kitts, lieutenant in the Chepstow
Yeomanry (late 18th/early 19th century), with article concerning same.
D4920/2/1/3
Records held elsewhere
The National Archives
(see under Royal Gloucestershire Hussars)
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FENCIBLE CAVALRY
1796-97
Correspondence relating to the Windsor Foresters [Volunteer Fencible
Cavalry, commanded by Colonel Charles Rooke], in Scotland after the
alarm about a possible invasion of Ireland; with printed orders and a water
colour sketch of the standard
D1833/
F3/20-23
ROYAL GLOUCESTERSHIRE HUSSARS
History
The origins of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars (RGH) lie in the various volunteer
Yeomanry cavalry companies raised in Gloucestershire between 1795 and 1830 to counter
the threat of French invasion and unrest at home. The first such troop was raised by Captain
Powell Snell in Cheltenham in 1795. By 1798 there were troops in Bristol, Gloucester,
Henbury, Minchinhampton, Stow, Stroud and Wotton-under-Edge. Following the Peace of
Amiens in 1802 all the troops, except that of Cheltenham, were disbanded. The Yeomanry
were revived when War broke out again but following Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo in 1815
interest waned, and all had been disbanded by 1827. In 1830 Mr. Codrington of Dodington
Park formed a troop from his tenants in response to riots against the introduction of farm
machinery. Other troops followed, in Fairford, Cirencester, Stroud, Gloucester, Bristol and
Tetbury. In 1834 these companies were amalgamated as the Gloucestershire Yeomanry
Cavalry (from 1841 the Royal Gloucestershire Yeomanry Cavalry). The Marquis of
Worcester, heir to the 6th Duke of Beaufort, was appointed commanding officer – the start of
a long association between the RGH and the Beaufort family. In 1847, the regiment became
the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars when Queen Victoria granted the title “Royal”.
Volunteer regiments were not liable for service overseas. However, in times of crisis
provision was made for units to volunteer for service abroad and for individual members to
transfer to the regular army. The formation of the Imperial Yeomanry to fight in the Boer War
(1899-1902) saw many RGH men volunteer for service in South Africa. The First Battalion of
the Imperial Yeomanry consisted of four companies, of which the 3rd was a Gloucestershire
unit. A contingent of 123 men left for Cape Town under the command of Captain W.H.
Playne, serving there for 18 months. They suffered casualties, more due to illness than to
Boer gunfire.
At the outbreak of the Great (First World) War in 1914 the regiment was assigned to home
defence on the east coast. In April 1915 the Hussars were sent to Egypt and then to Gallipoli
in Turkey, where they suffered heavy casualties. On 23 April 1916 an RGH. squadron,
commanded by Captain M.G. Lloyd Baker, was overwhelmed by a vastly superior force of
Turks at the Battle of Katia. There were many casualties and only nine of those surviving
escaped capture. Two of the survivors of this battle, Sergeant George Hyatt (who was taken
prisoner) and Charles Lovell (who was left for dead) are particularly well documented in the
archives of the RGH. Following the Battle of Rumani, which ended the Turkish threat to the
Suez Canal, the RGH participated in the advance through Sinai and Palestine. An interesting
group of papers (of the Honorary Secretary to the Duchess of Beaufort’s Fund for RGH
prisoners) provides an insight into the conditions under which POWs were held.
In 1922, as part of a general reduction in the nation’s armed force, the RGH was reduced to
company strength, becoming part of the Royal Tank Corps. By 1930, however, their strength
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had increased to three squadrons, one based at Gloucester, one at Bristol and one countywide. They were equipped with the “Peerless” armoured car, later to be replaced by the more
favoured Rolls Royce version. In 1938 the regiment again adopted the title Royal
Gloucestershire Hussars. In the face of the growing threat from Hitler’s Germany recruiting
proceeded apace and by 1939 the regiment was sufficiently large, numbering over 1000
men, to be divided into 1st RGH and 2nd RGH.
At the outbreak of the 2nd World War, 1st RGH was mobilized as an armoured unit. It
functioned as a training and rehabilitation unit, remaining in England for the duration of the
War, to be disbanded in 1946 after doing garrison duty in Austria.
2nd RGH sailed for the Middle East in August 1941 as part of 22nd Armoured Brigade and
fought in North Africa. The regiment was equipped with Crusader tanks and took part in the
operation to seize Sidi Rezegh, south of Tobruk. It suffered heavy losses in the battle fought
on 19th November, losing 30 of its 52 tanks in the action against a greatly superior force of
Germans and Italians. 2nd RGH then moved north, where the brigade came under heavy
attack from the Germans. The regiment was pulled back to be re equipped with inferior
Honey tanks and took part in an abortive advance towards Agedabia. On 1st January 1943,
2nd RGH was relieved and retired to Egypt to re-equip. On 27th May the regiment suffered
heavy losses in the face of a massive attack master-minded by Rommel in his thrust against
Tobruk. F squadron was decimated, losing all but one of its tanks. Re-equipped yet again, on
6th June the regiment was shattered in a battle at “the Cauldron” south of Tobruk. The
commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel N.A. Birley and the 2nd in command, Major W.A.V.
Trevor, were killed in swift succession. The regiment was disbanded in January 1943, its
men dispersed to reinforce other regiments, especially the 4th and 8th Hussars, the Royal
Wiltshire Yeomanry and the 5th Royal Tank Regiment.
In 1947 the R.G.H. was reformed as an armoured car regiment in the reconstituted Territorial
Army. Squadrons were based in Cirencester, Bristol, Tetbury, Cheltenham, and Gloucester
(their headquarters). They were affiliated to the 11th Hussars, who provided the permanent
staff. In 1967, against a background of defence cuts by the Labour Government, the
Territorial Army was drastically reduced and the RGH effectively disbanded. Over the next
18 months all the permanent staff left and all the equipment was handed back. By the end of
1968 all that remained was a permanent cadre of eight personnel.
The return to power of the Conservatives in 1970 brought about a change in policy towards
the armed forces. On 1st April 1971 the RGH were amalgamated with the Royal Wiltshire
Yeomanry and the Royal Devon Yeomanry to form a new regiment - the Wessex Yeomanry.
Each constituent regiment retained its original insignia, guidon and regimental march. The
RGH provided three units within the new regiment: the HQ troop, based at Cirencester; “A”
Squadron (Gloucester); “C” Squadron (Cirencester). On 1st April 1972 the RGH band
transferred from the Royal Signals to the new regiment, which received the prefix “Royal” in
1979.
The RGH celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1984 and major celebrations were organised.
In 1990 a regimental museum was opened, based in the Customs House in Gloucester
Docks. The Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum reflects the history of both the
Gloucestershire Regiment and the RGH.
The RGH Old Comrades Association was formed in 1920 and reconstituted in 1945. An
RGH Benevolent Fund was created after the Second World War to provide assistance to
Hussars, ex-Hussars and their dependants. An RGH Charitable Trust was established in
1972, when all regimental property became vested in Trustees.
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Records held at Gloucestershire Archives
The principal accumulation of archives of the RGH is under collection reference number
D4920, covering the period 1790-2003. A new catalogue of these was produced in 2005 [ref.
D4920].
The RGH archive contains both official records of the regiment as an administrative and
fighting unit, and non-official material donated by present and past servicemen and their
relatives. Most of the archive reflects developments and actions in the 20th century,
including important material relating to World War I and World War II.
The earliest surviving records relate to the Gloucester Troop (1797-1823) and the Tetbury
Troop (1831-38).
Apart from a War Diary (1916)-1919, there are few official records that cover World War I.
However, there are more records for World War II, including registers of officers, registers of
battle casualties for 2nd RGH, nominal rolls for HQ, F, G and H Squadrons, daily
administrative orders and casualty returns.
The archive also contains a large quantity of administrative files of the Royal Wessex
Yeomanry, from its inception (as the Wessex yeomanry) in 1971 to c.1990. These include
nominal rolls and papers concerning annual inspections. There are also part II and III
orders, 1971-1989, which provide a record of activities such as attendance at annual
camp, attestations and training for personnel across the whole regiment. Other files
relate to discipline, honours and awards, the Regimental Journal, annual camp and
equestrian events - such as the Badminton horse trials, at which the regiment provided
communications.
Non-official records, which form the largest portion of the archive, include a substantial
quantity of photographic material from the 19th and 20th centuries, reflecting the
regiment’s involvement in both World Wars and also recording its activities in peacetime.
Although the RGH was absorbed into the Wessex Yeomanry in 1971 (becoming the
Royal Wessex Yeomanry in 1979), it continues to celebrate and foster its distinctive
regimental identity. Hence the archive includes post 1971 photographic records such as
five photograph albums recording the celebrations at Badminton to mark the 150th
anniversary of the Yeomanry on 22 July 1984.
Individual soldiers, ex soldiers and their relatives gave much of the photographic material,
together with other memorabilia such as news cuttings, to the RGH trustees in connection
with various regimental histories and the opening of the Soldiers of Gloucestershire
museum in 1990. The archive also includes a series of trustees files which concern the
planning, opening and running of the museum as well as files of a more general nature
reflecting the trustees various areas of interest: regimental history, Old Comrades, the
war memorial in College Green, and regimental property including silver, uniforms and
paintings.
The First World War papers include the memorabilia of Squadron Sergeant-Major George
Hyatt, who was captured by the Turks at Katia in 1916. These include his diary, which he
kept from shortly before this battle until his return home to Gloucestershire.
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The Second World War papers include items preserved by Lieutenant Colonel Sampson
("Sam") Lloyd, who fought in the Western Desert campaigns of 1941-42. When 2 RGH was
disbanded he was instrumental in seeing that men were assigned to their new units in
squadron groups. He was active in securing the establishment of a benevolent fund for
Hussars, ex-Hussars and their dependants and played a leading role in the RGH
Association.
For background reading, Gloucestershire Archives’ library holds the following:
The History of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry, 1898-1922 by Frank
Fox, 1923 [ROL D5]
Second Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, Libya-Egypt, 1941-1942 by Stuart Pitman,
1950 [ROL D5]
The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars by Rollo Clifford, 1991 [ROL D5]
The Gloucestershire Collection includes various printed books and articles; also “B”
Squadron orders, 3 March 1908, and regimental orders, 1908-10.
Documents held at Gloucestershire Archives
(1790)-c.1983
Biographical papers concerning Alfred (“Mac”) McKenna (d.1980), including
the McKenna family history (from 1790) and an account of the War years,
1939-45, and later, written by his son
D4920/
2/4/3/7
(1795)-1947
List of Titles of the RGH
D4920/3/3/16
(1795)-1985
Brochure entitled “RGH a short history (1795) – 1985”
D4920/
2/6/34/1
1797-1823
Royal Gloucester Troop of Yeomanry minutes
D4920/1/1/1
1831-1838
Tetbury “D” Troop order book
D4920/1/1/2
(1834-1920)
List of adjutants, compiled 1976
D4920/3/3/6
1847-1854
Commission and papers of W. O. Maclaine (uncatalogued at July 2006)
D3330/
Box 19
1840-1843
Rules & regulations of Gloucestershire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry
D4920/2/1/7
(Mid-19th
century)
Black & white photo of oil painting of “The Blue Duke” [Duke of Beaufort,
commanding Yeomanry Cavalry as Marquis of Worcester]
D4920/2/1/9
1857-1861
Papers regarding allowances with list of military equipment: Captain Hale,
RGH
D1086/X25
1859-65
Commissions of J.E. Dorington
D745/X1
1861-1907
Granville Lloyd Baker: RGH Yeomanry commissions
D3549/27/2/1
1868
Nominal roll, with greetings from NCOs and privates to Marquis of
Worcester on his 21st birthday, and his reply
Memorabilia of Major Jack Bromhead of Bristol (1893-1977) DCM MBE,
who served with D Squadron, RGH, during World War I
D4920/2/1/12
Corporal Edwin Brain: letter concerning, with biographical details
D4920/2/1/31
c.1878c.1970
Late 19th
century, 1995
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D4920/
2/2/3/2
1885 – early
20th century
Photograph at camp and studio portrait, Paul Hatton, bandmaster (d.1912),
with newspaper cutting and biographical details
D4920/2/1/26
(1893)
Muster roll
D4920/2/1/5
(1898)-1914
“A continuation of the records of the Regiment from the end of the year
1897, where the records cease that were compiled by Colonel W H
Wyndham Quinn”. Comprise manuscript and typescript notes by Frank Fox
recording changes in personnel, camps and exercises, achievements and
notable events. Include list of the best horse 1898-1901, best shooting
1898-1914, best swordsmen 1898-1901.
D4920/3/3/1
1899-1902
D4920/3/3/7
1900
“Our First Battle Honour”; account of RGH part in Boer War [author
unknown]
Letter from Ben Neale recounting his experiences in the Boer War
1900
“Roughing it”: sketch and poem about an RGH camp
D4920/2/1/37
(1900), 1992
W.F. Croome: photocopies of photograph and letter written by his grandson
[Boer War]
Material concerning the RGH in the Boer War assembled in connection with
the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum
D4920/2/1/32
Newspaper cuttings about RGH from Cheltenham Free Press and Cotswold
News, 26 January
Papers of Granville Edwin Lloyd Baker, including appointment of his son,
Michael, as a Lieutenant in the Yeomanry
D4920/2/1/32
1906
Notices of commissions and promotions, and of a funeral in Berkeley, in the
Dursley, Berkeley and Sharpness Gazette (29 September 1906)
D4920/2/1/53
n.d.
Biographical notes on Major H.C. Elwes (1904-16) and photograph with B
Squadron
D4920/2/1/68
1908-c.1975
Papers relating to Squadron Sergeant-Major George Hyatt, who was taken
prisoner at Katia in 1916. The collection includes his diary, kept as a POW
from 1916 to his arrival home in 1919, and a studio portrait showing a
Turkish officer with Hyatt and three other prisoners, 1919.
D4920/
2/2/3/6
c.1911-1946
RGH Christmas cards (from the Lloyd Baker archive)
D3549/31/1/8
1912-1915
Postcards from Squadron Sergeant Major George Hyatt, mostly from camp
at Badminton
Papers relating to Major H.C. Elwes
D4920/8/15/3
c.1913-1997
Papers relating to Howard Lesley Whitaker, who served in A Squadron,
RGH, in World War I
D4920/
2/2/3/11
1914-1915
Postcards sent from Egypt by Charles Lovell
D4920/
2/2/3/9/1
1914-1915
The Gloucester Journal: wartime information and coverage. “Gloucester’s
Roll of Honour”, 12 September 1914; RGH on service – a trooper’s diary, 8
May 1915. Also, a complete active service roll for the RGH
D4920/
2/2/2/1
1914-1916
Messages from Ben James, RGH, to his wife
D4920/
2/2/2/3
1914-1918
Papers relating to Private Percy Coole Osborne of Bristol (killed 1918)
D4920/
2/2/3/10
(1914-1918)
Veterans' reminiscences of the First World War (compiled c.1950-1970)
D3549/34/1/3
(1900), 1998
1901
1905
1913-1916
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D4920/2/1/35
D4920/
3/6/2/16
D3549/
27/5/10
D4920/
2/2/3/5
1914-1977
Photographs, postcards and papers preserved by and relating to Charles
Lovell, who joined RGH in 1911 and was badly wounded at Katia, 1916. He
was, for many years, Secretary of the Old Comrades Association.
D4920/
2/2/3/9
(1914) - 1984
Papers relating to Joseph Kidd
D4920/
2/2/3/7
1915
Captain M.G. Lloyd Baker’s notebook (recording names of troops, details of
kit etc.)
D4920/
2/2/3/9/4
(1915-1918)
Outline map of Egypt, Palestine and Syria with enlargement showing sphere
of operations
D4920/
2/2/2/22
(1915-1918)
Diary of Captain Edgerton Tymewell Cripps
D4920/
2/2/3/4
1915-1919
Papers relating to Private Arthur Jones
D4920/
2/2/2/23
1915-1972
Documents relating to Captain John Crosbie Bengough (d. 1916)
D4920/
2/2/3/1
1916
Letters concerning the death of Michael Lloyd Baker at the Battle of Katia
D3549/34/1/3
[1916]
Reginald P. Guest, RGH, on horseback (with letter containing biographical
details)
D4920
2/2/2/26
1916-1918
Prisoner of war fund accounts
D1969
1916-1919
Diary of Squadron Sergeant-Major George Hyatt, who was captured at the
Battle of Katia
D4920/
2/2/3/6/3
(1916)-1919
War Diary, with a personal account of the Battle of Katia and experiences as
a POW - includes lists of those killed, wounded, sick and missing; also, list
of commissions granted, 1914-17
D4920/1/2/1
1916-1920
Papers concerning members of the RGH who were taken prisoner at the
battle of Katia, 1916. Includes list of prisoners and where held, samples of
letters and copy of the Angora News and dinner menus, 1919 and 1920
D4920/
2/2/2/30
(1916)
Article in the Cheltenham Chronicle & Gloucestershire Graphic, 1966 about
the Battle of Katia, (1916)
D4920/
2/2/225
1916-1921
Photocopies of letters about the fate of Michael Lloyd Baker
D4920/2/1/4
(1916), 1959
Newspaper cutting from the Gloucester Journal concerning a photograph of
captured RGH men being paraded through Jerusalem following the Battle of
Katia. The article features George Hyatt, Hugh Walwin and Harold Hawkes
of A Squadron
D4920/
2/2/2/31
1919
Menu card for dinner for repatriated POWs
D4920/8/15/7
1919
Decorative testimonials to Frank Turner, John Yates and Frank Edward
Turner
D4920/
2/2/2/42
1919
Return of RGH cadre
D4920/
2/2/3/9/4
1920
Plans and drawings of Rolls Royce armoured car
D4920/2/3/1
1920-1922
RGH diary, from the opening of recruiting for the Territorial Force
Association, with papers about conversion to an armoured car company and
names of subscribers to war memorial fund
D4920/1/3/1
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1920-1937
Typescript history of the RGH by Private Roberts
D4920/
3/3/2/4
1921-1939
Notes for RGH history, with mobilization notice, 1939, addressed to Colonel
E P Butler, and notes about the formation of a second regiment, 1939
D4920/
3/3/2/2
1921-1939
Papers concerning coal crisis, 1921, with appointment of Peter Henry
Cookson as 2nd Lieutenant, 1938, report on Captain Adam Trevor Smail,
1939 and nominal roll and reports on officers, 1939
D4920/1/3/2
1922
Cuttings from the Gloucester Journal about unveiling of the RGH war
memorial in Gloucester
D8815/3/3
1928-1968
RGH scrapbook (probably compiled by F.H. King): includes Armistice Day
order of service 1931, news cuttings about Katia Day and photographs and
menu cards of dinners
D4920/
2/2/3/8
1930s - 1962
Papers relating to George Castle of Badminton, MM DSM (d.1962). He
served with RGH in World War I, distinguishing himself in Gallipoli and at
Katia
D4920/
2/2/3/4
c.1930c.1990
Photograph album compiled by Jeremy Taylor, H Squadron RGH. Includes
photographs taken in India c.1930, of the fighting unit in North Africa, 194142, and of the liberation of Holland, 1945
D4920/
2/4/3/12
1935
Papers concerning John Russell of Chipping Sodbury [Dodington Troop]
D4920/2/1/11
1935-1952
Papers relating to the War Memorial in Gloucester Cathedral Close and to
the Book of Honour in St. Edmund's Chapel
D4920/
3/2/1-4
1936
Article in the Birmingham Gazette about 21st RGH camp at Dial House
Farm, Warwickshire
D4920/2/3/43
1937-1938
Correspondence between Lord Apsley and Duff Cooper about RGH dress in
the Coronation procession
D4920/2/3/49
1937- c.1939
Papers of Lieutenant Colonel Butler, C.O., RGH, including notes on a
lecture by General Sir Edmund Ironside on the history of the British Army
D4920/1/3/3
c.1937-1942
Papers collected for compilation of a regimental history, with copy of
Portcullis (November 1939), the RGH Regimental magazine
D4920/
3/3/2/1
1939
Nominal roll and reports on officers
D4920/1/3/2
1939
Territorial Army notice to join RGH, with cuttings about RGH progress in the
War
D4920/
2/4/1/1
1939
Six issues of Mein Bumph, the magazine of 1st RGH
D4920/
2/4/1/5
1939
Orders by Major J.S. Sinnott, Officer Commanding G Squadron
D4920/
2/4/2/2
1939-c.1941
Reminiscences of Sergeant John Vaughan, “G” Squadron, RGH, including
Middle East campaigns [compiled c.1980]
D4920/
2/4/3/14
1939-1941
Squadron Orderly Sergeant's detail book
D4920/1/4/2
(1939-c.1941)
Reminiscences of Sergeant John Vaughan, “G” Squadron, 2 RGH, compiled
c.1980. Includes Middle East campaigns
D4920/
2/4/3/14
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1939-1943
War Diary, including nominal rolls of other ranks in 2 RGH, 1939, and
permanent officers in “K” Regiment RAC, 1943, with details of battle
casualties in the Western Desert, 1941-42
D4920/1/4/1
1939-1943
Registers for 2nd RGH of commissioned officers and men, hospital
admissions, courses taken, battle casualties and those taken prisoner
D4920/
1/4/4//1-6
1939-1943
Administrative orders, 2nd RGH
D4920/
1/4/6/1-6
1939-1945
Officers' leave book – includes name, rank and address while absent
D4920/1/4/3
(1939-1945)
Roll of Honour of officers and men who died in the War: includes those who
died with other units
D4576
(1939-1945)
Roll of Honour: typed list of men in 2nd RGH killed in action or died as a
result of active service
D4920/
2/4/2/1
1940-1945
Peter Ryde's notes on his experiences with 2nd RGH in Nottinghamshire
and 1st RGH in Yorkshire and elsewhere
D4920/
2/4/2/3
1940-1946
Papers concerning RGH funds
D4920/
1/4/8/1-4
1940-1941
Military maps of El Gubi, 1940, and Tobruk, 1941
D4920/
2/4/2/5
(1940s?)
Studio portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Turner DSO, with Home Guard
arm band
D4920/
2/4/3/13
1940-1977
Photographs of men of G Squadron RGH in Warminster, 1941, and the
Middle East, 1942, with later photos of band practice and war memorial at
Gloucester Cathedral, 1965-77 [album compiled by Gilbert Wison
Nicholson, 1941-43]
D4920/
2/4/3/8
(1941)
Illuminated address to Gloucestershire Yeomanry [being copy of message
to 2nd RGH by the Duke of Beaufort before they went into action in the
Western Desert]
D4920/
2/4/2/9
1941
Description of the Worcester Jug inscribed “success to the Gloucester
Cavalry”, presented to the RGH by Her Majesty Queen Mary
D4920/3/4/1
1941
1st Armoured Division “secret” movement instruction no.1, 6th August.
Refers to various units, including 2nd RGH
D4920/
2/4/2/10
1941
Typed extract from letter to Brigadier J. Scott Cockburn, Officer
Commanding 22nd Armoured Brigade, detailing the Brigade’s time in Libya
in November and December, 1941
D4920/
2/4/2/11
c.1941
Train tickets from Alexandria to Sidi Gaber; map of Cairo
D4920/
2/4/2/12
c.1941
Papers relating to Lance Corporal Peter Hooper including portrait and
photographs of memorials, plus names listed on the El Alamein memorial
register
D4920/
2/4/3/4
1941-1942
Personal account of 2nd RGH offensive in Libya and Egypt, NovemberDecember 1941, with sketch of battle manoeuvres. Probably written by
Lieutenant Colonel W.A.B. Trevor, who died of wounds in June 1942
D4920/
2/4/2/13
1941-1942
Manuscript account of 2nd RGH in Egypt, from 1st October 1941 to 15th
January 1943. Author unknown.
D4920/
2/4/2/14
- 47 -
1941-1943
Tim Pitman’s battle history of the RGH: the campaigns in Libya and Egypt,
with appendix: “an account of the adventures of a wounded man at the
Battle of Sidi Resegh”
D4920/3/3/3
1941-1942
Citations for various 2nd RGH men
D4920/
2/4/2/15
1941-1942
Nominations for honours, awards and mentions in dispatches
D4920/
1/4/9/1
1941-1943
Casualty returns
D4920/
1/4/7/1-4
1941-1943
Nominal rolls for 2 RGH
D4920/
1/4/5/1-3
1941-1944
Copy of RGH Roll of Honour at RMC, Sandhurst
D4920/
2/4/2/20
1941-1945
Casualty lists for “H” Squadron, with details of those missing or taken
prisoner
D4920/
1/4/6/4
c.1941-1950
Memorabilia of Major Sampson Llewellyn Lloyd: includes photographs of
tanks in the Western Desert and 2 RGH in the Middle East
D4920/
2/4/3/6
1941-1992
Papers concerning RGH property
D4920/
3/4/1-20
1942
Letters from Lieutenant Colonel W.A.B. Trevor to Lieutenant Colonel J.A.T.
Miller, containing detailed account of the fighting in Egypt
D4920/
2/4/2/18
1942
Jeremy Taylor’s account of H Squadron, RGH, in North Africa, JuneDecember 1942
D4920/
2/4/3/12
1942
Operational order for defence of Sidi Bishr camp with map of Alexandria
defence scheme
D4920/
1/4/6/6
1942
Diary of Captain P. D. Jaques, No. 2 Troop, “G” Squadron. Includes battle
near In Imiad and a list of men in the squadron
D4920/
2/4/3/5
1942
Papers regarding personal effects of those killed, wounded or taken
prisoner
D4920/
1/4/9/2
1942
Record of haircuts given by Bert Horsell, the regimental barber, 1st RGH
D4920/
2/4/1/15
1942
Diary of Captain P.D. Jacques [no.2 troop, G Squadron, RGH], including
details of battle near Imiad, North Africa, and list of men in troop
D4920/
2/4/3/5
1942
2nd RGH disbandment order no. 1
D4920/
2/4/2/24
c.1942
Nominations for awards and mention in dispatches
D4920/3/10
c.1942
Maps of El Daba desert and bounds of Cairo sub-area
D4920/
1/4/9/3
c.1942
Papers of Mike O’Neill [sergeant, 2 RGH], including snapshots in the Middle
East and UK.
D4920/
2/4/3/109
c.1942-1989
Papers relating to Major Thomas Elder-Jones of H (Cheltenham) Squadron,
RGH, including an account of his service with 2nd RGH in Africa, c.1942;
also, obituary, 1989
D4920/
2/4/3/3
- 48 -
c.1942, 1994
Photographs of grave of Sergeant “Chalky” White; with an account of his
death, 1994
D4920/
2/4/3/9
1943
2nd RGH disbandment order, with details of regiments men sent to
D4920/
1/4/6/6
1943
MBE scroll for WO II John Charles Barnes, Regimental Quartermaster, 1st
RGH
D4920/
2/4/1/20
1943
Papers relating to K Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, including nominal
list of permanent staff officers
D4920/
2/4/1/25
c.1943
An account of 2nd RGH in Egypt, 1 October 1941-15 January 1943
D4920/
2/4/2/14
(1944), 1994
Papers relating to 1st RGH’s role in D Day
D4920/
2/4/1/21
c.1945
Typescripts of RGH history covering the Boer War and First World War, with
(printed) copy of A Short History of the Gloucestershire Regiment, 16941918
D4920/
3/3/2/3
1945-1946
Papers relating to 1st RGH’s time in Austria, including magazines and
nominal list
D4920/
2/4/1/26-27
1945-1983
RGH Association [Old Comrades] records: include minutes, correspondence
and papers concerning the benevolent Fund.
Note: items 12 and 14 are closed until 2020 & 2034 respectively
D4920/
3/1/1-19
1946
Letters to Colonel Radford, 1st RGH, praising the regiment
D4920/
5/1-11
1947
RGH Bulletin: includes unit strength, vehicles, training and recruitment
D4920/
1/3/1/1
1947
Biographical details of Lieutenant Colonel W. A. Chester Master, with
typescript short history of the RGH
D4920/3/3/4
1947
Typescript account of “How Mrs. Browne of Stotshill called out the
Yeomanry” (in c.1840)
D4920/2/1/6
1947-1960
News cuttings featuring RGH
D4920/2/5/4
1948
Nominal roll for annual camp
D4920/2/5/7
1948-49
Reports of RGH’s first year’s activities since reforming
D4920/1/5/3
1949
Speech by Field Marshal Sir William Slim at the passing out of “C” Company
on 1st July
D4920/2/5/22
1950
Papers from which the “Short History” of the RGH was prepared
D4920/3/3/16
c.1950
List of Old Comrades, “D” Squadron RGH
D4920/3/5/10
1952-1957
Papers relating to annual training camps
D4920/2/5/22
1953
Lecture notes on tank gunnery [Lieutenant J. P. Bryant, “D” Squadron]
D4920/2/5/22
1954
Lieutenant Colonel Pitman’s correspondence concerning material for buff
stripes
D4920/2/5/26
- 49 -
c.1954
Typescript and MS Short History of the Regiment with forward by the Duke
of Beaufort. Includes lists of battle honours in World War 1 and World War
II, and sections on the Old Comrades Association and the RGH War
memorial
D4920/
3/3/2/5
1956
Nominal roll of RGH officers
D4920/2/5/22
1956-57
Article on the RGH from XI Hussar Journal
D4920/2/5/37
1957-59
Royal Gloucestershire Hussars scrapbook
D4920/1/5/7
1960
Posters and press cuttings relating to 11th Hussars (“Cherrypickers”) on
their recruiting tour of Gloucester, Cheltenham and Bristol
D4920/2/5/62
1960
Cuttings about RGH regimental dinner, from the Gloucestershire Echo
D4920/2/5/63
1960-65
Quartermaster’s papers concerning “mess kit”
D4920/1/5/10
1960-84
Scrapbook of cuttings and photographs relating to A Squadron, RGH/Royal
Wessex Yeomanry
D4920/2/5/66
1961
Order of Service for Katia Day
D4920/2/5/67
(1961-1966)
Kit lists, including details of uniform
D4920/2/5/70
1962
Papers relating to the guidon presentation ceremony at Badminton
D4920/
2/5/71/1-7
1962
Band of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, recorded on the “Hospital
Roundabout” tapes made by Peter Duddridge of the Cotswold Tape
Recording Society. Also appear on later tapes, for which see the catalogue
D6112
[tape 3]
1962-64,
1968
Nominal rolls of RGH officers
D4920/
1/5/6,13
1962-1986
Correspondence and papers relating to regimental property. Includes lists of
antique arms, medals, silver and paintings
D4920/3/4/4
1964
Biographical notes on General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart VC (died 1963)
D4920/3/3/6
1963
Programme for the presentation to the RGH of the Freedom of Entry into the
City of Gloucester
MI 41
1963
Memorabilia relating to the RGH Freedom of Entry into the City of
Gloucester
D4920/2/5/76
1963
“Our First Battle Honours”: RGH in the Boer War
D4920/3/3/7
1963-64
Newspaper cuttings relating to the RGH
D4920/2/5/81
1963-67
Programmes for the combined yeomanry cross-country race, with article
from The Field, 1967
D4920/2/5/79
1964
Regimental journal
MI 22
1966
HM Queen Elizabeth II opening the Severn Bridge with RGH Honorary
Colonel
Papers relating to Chickerell camp, Dorset
D4920/2/5/88
RGH bandmaster talking on tape about his unwillingness for the band to be
merged with that of the 5th Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment – with
musical excerpts
D6112
[tape 40/3]
1966
1967
- 50 -
D4920/2/5/89
1968-69
Official communications concerning disbandment of RGH
D4920/1/5/14
1969-72
Orders and accounts for RGH cadre
D4920/
1/5/15-17
1969-84
Papers concerning the RGH Band
D4920/
1/6/16/1
1970-83
Minutes of meetings of various committees, Yeomanry Association etc.
D4920/
1/6/14/1-12
1970s, 1991
Programmes of El Gubi reunion dinners; applications and paperwork
regarding El Gubi medals, 1991
D4920/2/6/3
1971-73
Arrangements for Katia Day and Armistice Day services, and for other
significant events, including Silver Jubilee, 1977
D4920/
1/6/9/1,3,4-6
1971-74
Wessex Yeomanry NCO seniority roll
D4920/
1/6/16/3
1971-81
[Royal] Wessex Yeomanry: regimental policy, including recruitment, uniform
and guidon
D4920/
1/6/1/1,4
1971-81
[Royal] Wessex Yeomanry: appointments
D4920/
1/6/6/1-3
1971-81
[Royal] Wessex Yeomanry: honours and awards
D4920/
1/6/10/1-4
1971-81
[Royal] Wessex Yeomanry: Officers’ Mess – minutes and papers concerning
dinners and other functions, with Mess Christmas cards
D4920/
1/6/11/1-8
1971-81
[Royal] Wessex Yeomanry: papers concerning equestrian events, including
assistance at Badminton and Cirencester Park horse trials
D4920/
1/6/12/1-8
1971-82
[Royal] Wessex Yeomanry: establishment details, including list of NCOs
1981-82
D4920/
1/6/3/1-4
1971-83
[Royal] Wessex Yeomanry: annual fitness for role inspections
D4920/
1/6/5/1-13
1971-84
[Royal] Wessex Yeomanry: regimental history, journal and newsletters
D4920/
1/6/7/1-6
1971-89
[Royal] Wessex Yeomanry: part 2 & 3 orders – detailed information on RGH
personnel
D4920/
1/6/2/1-19
1971-92
[Royal] Wessex Yeomanry: records relating to “C” Squadron, RGH. Include
Squadron diaries, 1980-92, photographs and nominal rolls
D4920/
1/6/17/1-13
1972
Papers concerning offer of Freedom of the Borough of Cheltenham
D4920/2/6/4
1972-1981
Papers concerning the RGH Trust Fund
D4920/
1/6/16/8
1974
Papers concerning arrangements to mark 50 years of Duke of Beaufort as
Honorary Colonel in 1976
D4920/
1/6/16/9
c.1974
[Royal] Wessex Yeomanry: nominal roll of RGH Band
D4920/
1/6/15/4
1974-1981
[Royal] Wessex Yeomanry: RGH Squadron return, including nominal rolls
D4920/
1/6/4/1-6
- 51 -
1974-1987
RGH Association minutes [see catalogue for closure criteria]
D4920/
1/6/8/2,4-6
1974-1996
Papers concerning the establishment of a Regimental Museum
D4920/
3/6/2/1-15
1975
News cuttings concerning Katia day service
D4920/
2/2/3/6/9
1976
Tidworth Tattoo: souvenir programme
D4920/3/3/11
1977
Obituary of Charles Lovell by Major W.A. Mitchell
D4920/
2/2/39/5
(1977) - 1983
“Life of Charles Lovell” by Jack Summerell
D4920/
2/2/3/9/7
1979
Papers concerning change of title to the Royal Wessex Yeomanry
D4920/2/6/12
1979
Briefing notes for new recruits to the Royal Wessex Yeomanry
D4920/2/6/11
1979
Letter from the Ministry of Defence advising on the whereabouts of records
documenting RGH history
D4920/3/3/16
c.1979
Replies by seventeen RGH members to questionnaire on which camps they
had attended
D4920/3/3/9
1980
Correspondence with Lieutenant Colonel Ayshford-Sanford concerning
uniform for royal reception
D4920/2/6/17
1980
The Historical Journal of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry
D4920/3/3/10
c.1980
Inventory of RGH property: silver, uniforms, medals, pictures, prints,
photographs and other items
D4920/3/4/12
1981
Obituary of Capt. Anthony “Tim” Warr
D4920/2/6/21
c.1981
Newspaper cutting concerning proposed sale of the Codrington Archives
(which included 19th century records of the RGH Yeomanry cavalry)
D4920/2/6/22
1981-1986
Papers concerning RGH dress and uniform
D4920/3/4/14
1982-83
Adjutant’s papers concerning strength of the regiment
D4920/
1/6/16/17
1983
Requests for genealogical information, including obituary of Charles Lovell
D4920/
1/6/16/16
1983
Note about farewell dinner and presentation for Major J.E. Hall
D4920/2/6/23
1984
Papers concerning the 150th anniversary celebrations at Badminton,
including planning notes, a plan of Badminton, souvenir programme &
poster and video tapes
D4920/
2/6/26/1-3,
11-12
1984
Service to commemorate Katia Day, 1916 and the 150th anniversary of the
formation of the Gloucestershire Yeomanry Cavalry in 1834
MI 37
1984
Souvenir Programme: The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars 1834-1984. To
mark 150th anniversary celebration at Badminton
MI 38
1984
Papers concerning the 150th ceremony [collected by chairman of a branch
of the RGH Yeomanry Association]
D4920/2/6/3
- 52 -
1984
Obituary address for Henry, 10th Duke of Beaufort, written by Rev. W.S.
Llewellyn
D4920/2/6/27
1984
“Short History of the Yeomanry” by P J R Mileham
D4920/3/3/16
1984-1986
Minutes of meetings of the Gloucester Branch of the RGH Yeomanry
Association
D4920/2/6/3
1985
“Historical notes on the RGH”
D4920/3/3/16
1986
Article on NCOs of the Yeomanry Cavalry by R.G. Harris in the Journal of
the Society for Historical Research
D4920/2/1/8
1986-1987
Brochures concerning Gloucestershire Regimental Museum appeal
D4920/
2/6/34/1
1986-2003
“RGH Matters”: a series of files containing minutes of various RGH
committees (including Charitable Trustees and Benevolent Fund
committee), with general correspondence relating, in particular, to property,
RGH history, the War Memorial and the Regimental Museum
D4920/
3/5/1-15
1987
RGH nominal roll
D4920/2/6/3
c.1987
“Empty Saddles”: obituary notices and other papers, including article on 2
RGH by J.I. Frapwell
D4920/2/6/3
1987-2004
Papers of Major D Barrington Browne [Honorary Secretary To Trustees]
concerning the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum
D4920/
3/6/1/1-18
1989
Newspaper cutting from Bygone Gloucestershire with RGH in procession on
occasion of visit of Edward VII to the Gloucester agricultural Show
D4920/2/1/64
1990
Papers concerning annual camp at Okehampton, Devon, including lists of
those attending
D4920/
1/6/16/8
1990
RGH band instrument list
D4920/3/5/2
1990
Audio tapes relating to stories behind the displays at the Regimental
Museum
D4920/2/6/12
1990
Newspaper cuttings and other documents about the opening of the
Regimental Museum
D4920/
2/6/34/2
c.1990
Article on the association of the Beaufort family with the RGH
D4920/3/3/12
c.1990
Maps showing location of RGH troops raised in Gloucestershire
D4920/3/3/13
c.1990
Manuscript draft of Rollo Clifford’s photographic history of the RGH
D4920/3/3/14
[1991]
Newspaper cuttings from The Citizen concerning annual reunion of the RGH
band
D4920/
2/6/34/41
1992
Article in the Sunday Express about Frampton on Severn, mentioning
Colonel Rollo Clifford and Colonel John Penley
D4920/
2/6/34/42
1993
Obituary notices of George Ives, Imperial Yeomanry [last known survivor of
the Boer War; died age 111]
D4920/
2/6/34/44
1993
Obituary notice for Sir Philip Shelbourne [a troop leader in the 11th
Armoured Division in the NW Europe campaign, 1944-45]
D4920/
2/6/34/45
1994
Obituary notice for Colonel Charles Sivewright [o/c RGH 1964-67]
D4920/
2/6/34/46
- 53 -
1994
Papers concerning celebrations to mark the “Year of the Yeomanry” [200
years since its formation]
D4920/
2/6/34/47
1995
Leaflet: “Soldier Artists Poets” [special event at the Regimental Museum]
D4920/
2/6/34/7
1995
Programme for RGH families day at Frampton Court]
D4920/2/6/48
1995
Papers concerning the bicentenary celebrations; appointment of Major
Patrick Beddows [A squadron, Royal Wessex Yeomanry] and Tim Clarke
[HO Squadron Commander]
D4920/2/6/49
1995
Obituary notice of Lieutenant Colonel Norris King
D4920/2/6/51
1997
Papers concerning installation of RGH memorial window in St. Mary de
Lode Church, Gloucester
D4920/2/6/52
1998
Papers concerning the strategic defence review
D4920/3/5/9
1999-2000
Major D. Barrington-Browne’s correspondence with those trying to trace
RGH connections. Includes Edward Colson Price (D squadron in World War
1) and SQMS J Cross (POW of the Turks in World War 1); lists of RGH
killed in the World Wars and their War cemeteries; Trooper H G Collins of A
Squadron, a survivor of Katia, 1916
D4920/
3/5/11-15
2002
Obituary for Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Gordon-Creed
D4920/2/6/53
2003
Obituary for Sir Michael Ogden
D4920/2/6/53
2003
Appointment of Lord Rupert de Mauley as Commanding Officer, Royal
Wessex Yeomanry
D4920/2/6/53
n.d.
Notes on sources and bibliography for study of RGH history
D4920/3/3/8
Photographs and illustrations held at Gloucestershire Archives
(1834-1853)
Henry Somerset, Duke of Beaufort, as Colonel of the Gloucestershire
Yeomanry (in colour, on Christmas card)
MI 21
(c.1840)
Captain Sir William Codrington & Lady Georgina at Dodington (in colour, on
Christmas card)
MI 21
1869
Dodington Squadron on horseback
D4920/2/1/13
1875
Monmouth troop, “C” Squadron
D4920/2/1/15
c.1878-1970
Photograph album of Jack Bromhead, with many shots of RGH comrades
and of camps, 1912-14, and of bomb damage through the first Zeppelin raid
on England.
D4920/
2/2/3/2/1
c.1880
Copy print of studio portrait of Thomas Bainbridge of Yew Tree Farm,
Norton
D4920/2/1/16
1885
Trooper George Adcock Sykes, Cheltenham Troop
D4920/2/1/17
1885
Paul Hatton, bandmaster
D4920/2/1/26
1886
“B” Troop
D4920/2/1/18
(1887)
Inspection of RGH by HRH the Prince of Wales
D4920/2/1/19
- 54 -
(1888)
“E” Troop – four yeomen on horseback
D4920/2/1/20
1890
“A” Squadron on parade
D4920/2/1/21
1890
Dodington Cavalry Troop at Cheltenham Barracks, 1890
D5571
c.1890
Trooper Lewis Lawrence, Monmouth Troop
D4920/2/1/22
c.1890-1905
Album of photographs of 7th Dragoon Guards in Egypt (before 1900) and
Royal Gloucestershire Hussars
D1969/Z4
(1894)
Postcard of painting showing 8th Duke of Beaufort reviewing RGH in
Cheltenham
D4920/2/1/23
1897
Visit of HRH the Prince of Wales to Cheltenham, with RGH heading the
parade
D4920/2/1/24
1897
RGH trumpeters
D4920/2/1/25
1898
Berkeley Troop
D4920/2/1/28
1898
Herbert William Prout of Berkeley Troop
D4920/2/1/28
1899
Cheltenham Troop
D4920/2/1/25
1899
“Mafeking”: sepia print of soldiers in action
D4920/2/1/30
n.d.
9th Duke of Beaufort, Commanding Officer 1889-1894, Honorary Colonel
1897-1924 (in colour, on Christmas card)
MI 21
1900
3rd (Gloucestershire) Company, 1st Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry at Horfield
barracks, Bristol
D4920/2/1/33
c.1900
No. 1 Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, mounted, near Cape Town
D4920/2/1/34
(1900)
Imperial Yeomanry, including W.F. Croome, outside a train carriage in Cape
Town
D4920/2/1/32
1900
Sketch “Roughing it” of an RGH camp
D4920/2/1/37
(c.1900)
RGH in Cheltenham (photocopy from Cheltenham on Camera by Guy
Lilminster, 1991
D4920/2/1/38
c.1900/early
20th century
Mounted troop of RGH
D4920/
2/1/37,41
Early 20th
century
(c.1902)
RGH parade, Cecily Hill, Cirencester
D4920/2/1/36
Officer Levee Dress, Imperial Yeomanry (in colour on Christmas card)
MI 21
1902
Lieutenant Colonel The Duke of Beaufort with General Sir Evelyn Wood in
Badminton Park at camp
D4920/2/1/44
1903
RGH Imperial Yeomanry in camp at Badminton
D4920/2/1/45
c.1904
Postcards showing Cheddar Cam, with RGH Band leading a parade and D
Squadron on horseback
D4920/2/1/46
1904
A Squadron at Cheddar Camp
D4920/2/1/47
1904-08
Postcards of RGH including Band, camps at Wells, Buford and Badminton,
staff, Ledbury Troop, Edward George Pullin and Frank Symes
D4920/2/1/48
- 55 -
c.1904-1915
Photograph album, principally relating to Patcham Camp (near Brighton) in
1914, but including also camps at Cheddar, Salisbury Plain, Badminton,
Bulford, Hunstanton and Tidworth
D4920/
2/2/1/1
n.d.
Major H.C. Elwes (1904-16) with B Squadron
D4920/2/1/68
1905
14 Yeoman soldiers with the Marsden challenge cup
D4920/2/1/49
1905
Empire Day, Wells
D4920/2/1/50
c.1905
A.L. Graham-Clarke as Lieutenant Colonel R.A. (he served with RGH in the
Boer War)
D4920/2/1/51
1906
Inspection of D Squadron by Lieutenant Sir Ian Hamilton, Bristol
D4920/2/1/52
c.1906
Officers and yeomen at camp
D4920/2/1/52
1907
Band at camp, Piercefield
D4920/2/1/55
c.1907
Regimental parade
D4920/2/1/56
1908
RGH in church parade of the Territorial Forces of Gloucester & District
D4920/2/1/57
1908
RGH permanent staff including Captain L.E.H.M. Darrell, adjutant
D4920/2/1/58
(1908)
NCOs at camp, Sudeley Castle
D4920/2/1/59
(1908)
RGH officers in full dress at Badminton
D4920/2/1/65
1908, 1909
Oldown Troop at Oldown, Tockington and at Thornbury Station
D4920/
2/1/60,62
1908
Signallers with flags
D4920/2/1/60
n.d.
Sir Lionel Darrell of Saul, adjutant to RGH 1904-08
D4920/2/1/40
c.1910-1916
Postcards showing RGH in camp at Badminton, 1912, and Mena, 1915, and
on Salisbury Plain, 1910
D4920/
2/2/3/6/2
c.1910-1919
2nd Lieutenant C. W. Codrington and the 19th Hussars reservists
D5571
1911
C Squadron at Fairford, in civilian dress
D5571
c.1911
“B” Squadron proceeding to camp
GPS 86/86
c.1912
“B” Squadron at Colesbourne Park
D4920/2/1/68
c.1912
A group of RGH officers
D4920/2/1/69
1913
Major H.C. Elwes on horseback, commanding D Squadron at Bulford Camp
D4920/
2/2/3/5
1913
Officers on horseback at Bulford camp, Salisbury Plain
D4920/2/1/70
c.1913
Print of postcard view of Bulford camp
D4920/2/1/71
n.d., 1984
General Carton de Wiart VC, adjutant of the RGH 1912-14 [with
biographical details and correspondence about his uniform, 1984]
D4920/2/1/67
n.d.
Edward George Pullin, Ledbury Troop, RGH
D4920/
2/2/2/3
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1914
Patcham Camp: various postcards and photographs showing RGH in camp
D4920/
2/2/1/2-10
1914
RGH at Newbury
D4920/
2/2/26-8
c.1914
George Hyatt in uniform (studio portrait)
D4920/
2/2/3/6/2
c.1914
Captain Tommy Longworth of Long Newton with mounted troopers
D4920/
2/2/2/4
c.1914
Trooper Sidney Taylor, Ledbury Troop
D4920/
2/2/2/16
1914
Algar Howard, at Newbury
D4920/
2/2/2/9
1914
F. Strickland
D4920/
2/2/2/5
1914
Arthur Frederick Dee
D4920/
2/2/2/13
(1914)
Abergavenny Troop, RGH
D4920/
2/2/2/10
c.1914
Trooper on horseback
D4920
2/2/2/12
1914-15
Postcards of RGH at Patcham Camp, 1914, and of Ledbury Troop at Old
Hunstanton, Norfolk, 1915
D4920/
2/2/2/11
1914-15
Photograph album showing RGH in Egypt and at Sulva Bay, Gallipoli
D4920/
2/2/3/2/2
1914-16
Postcards of RGH at camp in Newbury and Patcham
D4920/
2/2/2/3
1914-18
RGH troopers during the First World War, including Patcham camp and
photographs showing nurses
D4920/
2/2/2/14
1914-18
RGH in Egypt and Palestine (Small album and loose photographs)
D4920/
2/2/2/15
1914-18
Photographs of the Hussars in Egypt and Palestine
D4652
n.d.
Studio portrait of Squadron Sergeant Major George Hyatt in uniform [World
War I]
D4920/8/15/2
1914-1931
Photograph album, including RGH at Patcham Camp, 1914, Ledbury Troop,
and armoured car company at Cirencester, 1931
D4920/
2/2/2/2
1914-1977
Charles Lovell (joined RGH in 1911 and was badly wounded at Katia, 1916.
He was, for many years, Secretary of the Old Comrades Association.
D4920/
2/2/3/9
1915
Montage of photographs showing recruiting procession in Cheltenham and
Imperial Yeomanry on active service with the Mediterranean Expedition
force
D4920/
2/2/2/17
1915
Postcard showing RGH lines at Alexandria before leaving Egypt for the
Dardanelles
D4920/
2/2/2/19
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1915
Lieutenant Colonel Calvert, Officer Commanding 3rd line, on horseback
D4920/
2/2/2/20
1915
Lieutenant J.C. Bengough
D4920/
2/2/3/1
c.1916
Sergeant H.G. Peacey, mounted (as a corporal, in battle dress) on
“Howard”, prior to his death at the Battle of Katia
D4920/
2/2/2/27
c.1916
Corporal W.J. Smith, farrier, on horseback
D4920/
2/2/2/28
[1916]
Reginald P. Guest, RGH, on horseback
D4920/
2/2/2/26
1916-20
Photographs of members of the RGH who were taken prisoner by the Turks
at Katia, 1916, including celebration lunch at the Guildhall, Gloucester, given
for returned POWs
D4920/
2/2/2/30
1917
No. 3 Troop, “B” Squadron at 2nd Cavalry Officers’ Cadet School, Kildare
D4920/
2/2/2/35
1917
Guns captured at Huj
D4920/
2/2/3/9/3
1918
Lieutenant Col, the Duke of Beaufort
D4920/
2/2/2/36
(1918)
Private Edward George Forrest in action at Nahr-El-Falik (engraving, on
Christmas card)
MI 21
c.1919
Great Western Railway station entrance with Hussars returning to
Gloucester
GPS 154/
1065-1066
(1919)
RGH men arriving home from Palestine
D4920/
2/2/2/39-41
c.1920
Copy print of studio portrait of Henry Francis Perkins, c.1870
D4920/2/1/14
1920s
RGH on horseback; officers at evening functions and in front of peerless
armoured car
D4920/
2/3/2-3,
6-7
c.1921
E. Pitt and J. Perris, trumpeters
D4920/2/3/8
1923
HRH the Prince of Wales inspecting the regiment at Wilton House, Wilton,
Salisbury
D4920/2/3/11
1923
Photograph of painting of Captain Elidyr Herbert in action at Huj, 8
November 1917
D4920/
2/2/2/33
1924-1925
RGH Rugby Football Club
D4609
1925
Officers of 21st (RGH) Armoured Car Company, in camp at Cirencester
D4920/2/3/12
1925
Cirencester Park camp
D4920/2/3/13
[early 1920s]
Photograph of A.J. Palmer (Commanding Officer of RGH 1917-22)
D4920/2/3/54
1927
Captain Sir Anselm Guise
D4920/
2/2/3/9/4
1928
Officers in camp at Wallingford (Berkshire)
D4920/2/3/17
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c.1928
A Squadron RGH, flanked by armoured cars
D4920/2/3/19
c.1928
RGH Band
D4920/2/3/20
1928-1930
In camp at Wallingford, Cirencester and Tidworth (Wiltshire)
D4920/
2/3/21-22,24
1930
S. Adderley
D4920/
2/2/3/9/4
c.1930
Armoured cars and crews
D4920/2/3/25
1931
Officers and sergeants of 21st RGH Armoured Car Company at Wheatley
camp
D4920/
2/3/26-29
1931
Cirencester troop at Cirencester Hospital carnival, including Lieutenant J.
Sinnott and Rolls Royce armoured cars
D4920/2/3/30
1933
Lieutenant Colonel Palmer and Lieutenant Colonel F.A. Mitchell
(Commanding Officer 1933) at Dial House camp
D4920/
2/2/3/9/3
1933
Officers and men at Kenilworth camp, Warwickshire
D4920/
2/3/31-34
1934
Officers and men at Houghton Down, Stockbridge, Hampshire – including
Tetbury troop dispatch riders
D4920/
2/3/35-37
1935
Officers and men at New Milton, Hampshire
D4920/
2/3/38-39
1935
RGH parade through Gloucester
D4920/2/3/40
1935
RGH band at the Jubilee of King George V
D4920/3/3/15
1935
RGH guard of honour at Jack Clotworthy’s wedding
D4920/2/3/41
1936
RGH officers at Ashow, Kenilworth
D4920/2/3/42
c.1936
Winners of the Bentinck Cup, pictured in front of armoured car at Gloucester
Barracks
D4920/2/3/45
1937
D and A Squadrons at Wallingford
D4920/
2/3/47-48
1938
RGH officers at Court Farm camp, Sussex
D4920/2/3/50
c.1938
Sergeant and troops outside Cirencester barracks
D4920/2/3/52
1939
D (Bristol) Squadron at Colston, Bristol
D4920/
2/4/1/7
1939-40
Informal photographs of 1st RGH
D4920/
2/4/1/9
(1939-42)
B Squadron, 1st RGH
D4920/
2/4/1/9-14
1939-1945
Photograph album compiled by A.H. Stanton, 2nd Lieutenant RGH (1939)
including active service in Egypt, 1941-42
D4920/
2/4/3/11
c.1940
Lieutenant Colonel N.A. Birley [Commanding Officer 2nd RGH 1940-42]
D4920/
2/4/3/1
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(1940s?)
Studio portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Turner DSO, with Home Guard
arm band
D4920/
2/4/3/13
1940-1941
F Squadron, 2nd RGH, including one with a Crusader tank in the desert
D4920/
2/4/2/4
1940-1977
Photographs of men of G Squadron RGH in Warminster, 1941, and the
Middle East, 1942, with later photos of band practice and war memorial at
Gloucester Cathedral, 1965-77 [album compiled by Gilbert Wison
Nicholson, 1941-43]
D4920/
2/4/3/8
c.1941
Men of 2nd RGH in the desert, including James Scarrot
D4920/
2/4/2/5
(c.1941)
Tank crew from HQ troop, on a Crusader tank in the desert
D4920/
2/4/2/6
1941
“F” Squadron, 2 RGH
GPS 613/
9, 27
1941
Major Algar Howard addressing Old Comrades on Katia Day
D4920/
2/2/3/9/4
1941
H Squadron, 2nd RGH
D4920/
2/4/2/7-8
1941-1942
Photographs taken by Major Gerald Granfield Boyd of RGH and Royal
Wiltshire Yeomanry in the desert campaigns
D4920/
2/4/3/2
(1941-1942)
Tetbury Troop, G Squadron RGH, in Libya and Egypt
D4920/3/5/2
1942
“F” Squadron, 2 RGH, after the surrender of Halfaya, Libya
D4920/
2/2/3/9/4
1942
“A” Squadron, 1st RGH, in Wherewell, Isle of Wight
D4920/
2/4/1/15
1942
Officers and Sergeants at Ogborne St. George camp
D4920/
2/4/1/16-17
1942
“A” Squadron, RGH
D4920/
2/4/1/18
1942
2nd RGH in the desert [album and individual snapshots]
D4920/
2/4/1/19, 21,
23
(1942)
2nd RGH, “G” Squadron (Tetbury troop), in Alexandria
D4920/
2/4/2/16
(1942)
Portrait of Major J. Sinnott (Officer Commanding G squadron)
D4920/
2/4/3/9
(1942)
Photograph of painting by 2nd Lieutenant P.D. Jacques of three G squadron
officers in the desert
D4920/2/4/2/
17
(post 1942)
Grave of Sgt. A.H.V. Byard, 2nd Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, killed in the
Middle East in 1942
GPS 613/
28-29
1944
1st RGH at Hatfield Peverell, Essex
D4920/
2/4/1/22
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c.1945
Inspection of 1st RGH by Honorary Colonel The Duke of Beaufort at Bury
St. Edmonds
D4920/
2/4/1/24
1946
1st RGH in Germany and Austria, showing men, landscape and vehicles
D4920/
2/4/1/28
1946
RGH at the Vienna Tattoo
D4920/
2/2/3/9/4,
2/4/1/29
1948
RGH at review by HM King George VI in Hyde Park
D4920/2/5/5
1950
Caricatures of various RGH personnel, drawn by Bob Bennett
D4920/2/5/10
1950
RGH at Braunton Camp (Devon)
D4920/
2/5/11-12
1951
H Squadron tanks in Battle of Britain parade, Cheltenham
D4920/2/5/14
1951
RGH at Penhale Camp (Cornwall)
D4920/2/5/16
c.1951
Lieutenant Shakerley (o/c 1951-53)
D4920/2/5/17
Pre-1953
Pencil sketch of Major (later, Lieutenant Colonel) Stuart Pitman
D4920/2/5/23
1953
D Squadron, RGH, at the Coronation
D4920/2/5/24
1953
RGH Old Comrades with Lieutenant Colonel Pitman
D4920/2/5/25
1954
Sergeants’ Mess at Tidworth, Wiltshire
D4920/2/5/27
1955
Montage of RGH photographs, with small head-only copy photograph of
Adolf Hitler
D4920/2/5/29
1956
RGH at Lulworth camp, Dorset, including Captain Bathurst
D4920/
2/5/33-34
1956
RGH Daimler armoured cars passing the saluting base at RAF Yeovilton Air
Display, Somerset
D4920/2/5/36
1957
RGH at Rollestone camp, Salisbury Plain. Includes Duke of Beaufort and
Lieutenant Colonel A. Kershaw
D4920/2/5/38
c.1958
Dingo vehicle and crew in Cheltenham
D4920/2/5/41
1959
HM Queen Elizabeth II, Colonel Cox and Sergeant May at the Badminton
Horse Trials
D4920/2/5/43
c.1959
RGH at Castlemartin camp, South Wales
D4920/2/5/42
1950s
Dingo vehicles
D4920/
2/5/41, 52-54
1950s
RGH band in Cirencester
D4920/2/5/56
1959-1966
RGH at annual camps, with parades on Remembrance Day (in Cheltenham,
1965) and Katia Day (Gloucester, 1966)
D4920/2/5/44
1950s-1969
RGH at annual camps and on training exercises
D4920/2/5/45
Early 1960s
RGH band
D4920/2/5/57
Early 1960s
RGH vehicles in front of Anchor Inn
D4920/2/5/58
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1960s
RGH and Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers at camp; includes Duke
of Beaufort inspecting Old Comrades
D4920/2/5/59
1960s
RGH guard of honour at Major K.I.B. Yeamman’s wedding
D4920/2/5/60
1960
A Squadron, RGH, at Bellerby camp, Leyburn, Yorkshire
D4920/
2/5/61,
2/5/95/3
c.1960
Duke of Beaufort presenting awards
D4920/2/5/64
1961
Presentation of a statuette of a Hussar upon horseback to Captain Charles
Lovell by the Duke of Beaufort
D4920/
2/2/3/9/2
1961
Lieutenant P. Birchall and his troop cooking lunch outdoors at Lulworth,
Dorset
D4920/2/5/69
1962
Guidon presentation ceremony at Badminton
D4920/
2/5/71/1-7
1962
RGH silver and other artefacts
D4920/3/4/3
(1962)
RGH guidon, with battle honours (in colour, on Christmas card)
MI 21
1962
RGH at annual camp, Chickerell, Dorset
D4920/
2/5/73-74
c.1962
Trooper Bradley guarding RGH treasures in Cirencester Church
D4920/2/5/75
1963
Officers’ Mess, Dibgate camp, Folkestone, Kent
D4920/2/5/77
1963
RGH as winners of the regimental rifle meeting, Sneedhams Green
D4920/2/5/78
1963
RGH parade for freedom of entry to the city of Gloucester
D4920/
2/5/95/2-3
1963
Opening of the new council chamber, Shire Hall, by HM Queen Elizabeth
the Queen Mother (RGH provided an escort)
D4920/
2/5/95/2
1964
RGH at Penhale camp, Cornwall
D4920/2/5/82
1964
RGH “Ferret” scout cars
D4920/2/5/83
c.1964
Album of colour plates of inspection of RGH by the Prince of Wales in 1897
D4920/2/1/19
c.1965
11th Hussars guidon parade and 250th anniversary, Hohne, Germany
D4920/2/5/86
c.1965
Wedding of Major Leuan Davies, 11th Hussars
D4920/2/5/86
1966
HM Queen Elizabeth II opening the Severn Bridge with RGH Honorary
Colonel; and RGH guard of honour
D4920/
2/5/88,
2/5/95/3
1966
RGH at Chickerell camp, Dorset
D4920/2/5/89
1967
RGH band with trophy
D4920/2/5/90
1968
Yeomen digging a nuclear shelter in Bovington, Dorset
D4920/2/5/91
1969
RGH cadre at Tidworth, Wiltshire
D4920/2/5/92
Late 1960s
RGH HQ Squadron outside Highfield House, Cirencester
D4920/2/5/93
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c.1972-73
C (RGH) Squadron at Thetford, Norfolk
D4920/2/6/5
1973
Wessex Yeomanry at East Wrexham camp, Norfolk
D4920/
2/6/6-7
(c.1973)
C Squadron, RGH (in Norfolk?)
D4920/2/6/8
c.1970mid 1980s
RGH at social events and training, prior to disbandment and as squadron of
Wessex Yeomanry
D4920/2/6/2
c.1970s1990s
C (RGH) squadron on training exercises
D4920/
2/6/15-16
1977
“Olloways Orse”, Corscombe: yeomen “at play”
D4920/2/6/9
1978
Exercise “Copper Beech”, Gibraltar: includes cine film of RGH “C”
Squadron
D4920/2/6/9
c.1979
The first four commanding officers of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry
D4920/2/6/13
c.1979
Royal Wessex Yeomanry at camp in Norfolk
D4920/2/6/14
c.1980
RGH silver and other valuable property
D4920/3/4/13
1980s
Bert Horsell (regimental barber, 1st RGH) and others
D4920/
2/4/1/15
1980s
Miscellaneous informal photographs of RGH squadrons
D4920/
2/4/1/18
1981
Recruit cadre at Crickhowell, Brecon
D4920/
2/4/1/20
1983-84
A (RGH) Squadron at camp in Bellerby (Yorkshire) and Beckingham
D4920/
2/4/1/24
1984
Album of photographs of the El Alamein Cemetery
D4920/2/6/3
1984
RGH parade at Badminton to mark 150th anniversary of formation of the
yeomanry [colour slides]
D4920/2/6/25
1984
Photograph albums of the 150th anniversary celebrations at Badminton
D4920/
2/6/26/4-10
c.1984
Photograph album of Royal Wessex Yeomanry at camp
D4920/2/6/28
1980s
RGH element of Royal Wessex Yeomanry
D4920/2/6/3
1980s-1990s
Informal photographs of C (RGH) Squadron [colour slides]
D4920/2/6/24
1981
Recruit cadre at Crickhowell, Brecon
D4920/
2/4/1/20
1986
South Cerney: parade
D4920/
2/4/1/25
1987
Knook camp, Wiltshire
D4920/
2/4/1/30
c.1987-1991
C (RGH) squadron
D4920/
2/4/1/31
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1988
Officers’ Mess and C Squadron (RGH) at Wretham Camp, Stanford
(Norfolk) and HQ (Royal Wessex Yeomanry) Squadron at Cirencester
D4920/
2/4/1/24, 32
1988
HQ (Royal Wessex Yeomanry) Squadron at Cirencester
D4920/
2/4/1/24
1989-90
Opening of the Regimental Museum: combined band of RGH and
Gloucestershire Regiment at Colston Hall, Bristol, 1989, and opening of the
Museum, 1990
D4920/
2/4/1/26/12
1989-90
Photographs from Bygone Gloucestershire and the Gloucester Journal
showing RGH parade to Gloucester Cathedral, 1936, and RGH men in front
of armoured cars wrapped in tarpaulins
D4920/2/3/44
Late 1980s1990
Royal Wessex Yeomanry personnel [colour photographs for display at
Recruit Training centres]
D4920/2/6/33
1990
Opening of the Soldiers of Gloucestershire [Regimental] Museum
D4920/
2/6/34/3
1990
RGH band at annual camp in Tidworth, Wiltshire
D4920/2/6/35
c.1990
11th Duke of Beaufort on horseback
D4920/2/6/36
c.1990
Yeomen boarding a helicopter at sea and aboard an aircraft carrier
D4920/
2/6/38-39
c.1990
Photograph album compiled by Major R Coleman for use in Rollo Clifford’s
RGH history, with other original photographs
D4920/3/3/14
c.1990
Contact prints “for a regimental history” with related notes
D4920/3/3/15
1991
HQ (Royal Wessex Yeomanry) Squadron at Westdown camp
D4920/2/6/40
1993
Officers’ Mess & HQ Squadron at Beckingham camp
D4920/2/6/40
1995
Reproduction (postcard) of a painting by J.E. Mathews of the 8th Duke of
Beaufort reviewing the RGH in Cheltenham, 1894
D4920/
2/6/34/6
1998
RGH graves at Gallipoli
D4920/3/5/10
Records held elsewhere
1. The National Archives
These include the following:
Records of the growth in the establishment of various corps, 1803-04, with pay and
allowances
Records of the reduction of the Yeomanry Cavalry, 1838
Various papers, principally concerning transfer to the Territorials, 1876-1942
A small selection of muster rolls and pay lists, 1803-53
Letters received by the Home Office from yeomanry and volunteers, 1802-03
Registers of Yeomanry returns, 1794-1803
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Accounts ledgers, 1831-39
Records relating to the pensions of adjutants and sergeants of disbanded regiments,
1827-28
2. The Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum
This museum covers the history of the Gloucestershire Regiment and Royal Gloucestershire
Hussars, and also houses a sizeable library and archive relating to the Gloucestershire
Regiment.
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TERRITORIAL FORCES
As the territorial forces were affiliated as battalions of regular regiments, their records tend to
be similar in nature.
Records held at Gloucestershire Archives
1900-10
Photograph(s) of Michael G. Lloyd-Baker in Territorial Army camp
D3549/33/2/1
1908
Territorial Forces of Gloucester & District on church parade
D4920/2/1/57
1908-1963
Records of the Gloucestershire Territorial, Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve
Association [see catalogue for details]
D2388
1909
Photograph of Territorials marching in Gloucester on King’s Day
GPS 154/663
1909
Standing orders of the County’s Territorial Forces Association
L/C6
1909-22
Photographs of Territorial Army camps at Beaulieu, 1909, Shorncliffe, 1913,
and Bulford (Bucks Camp), 1922 (33/2/4)
D3549/
33/2/1, 4
1920-31
Photographs of Territorial Army camps
D3549/33/2/7
1921
Emergency measures affecting the Territorial Force Association during the
coal crisis
D4920/2/3
c1936
Photograph of Repton Officer Training Corps inspection
D5079/12
p.24
1939
Docket file of letters and papers concerning the Territorial Army drill hall at
Nailsworth
D1405/2/47
1940
Copy attestation to join the Territorial Army
DA38/298/1
1946
Typescript account of the history of the regimental colour, Cheltenham
National Reserve (disbanded after World War I)
P78/9
CW 4/1
1947
Papers concerning recruitment drive to reformed regiments of the TA
D4920/2/5/3
1948
Text of speech In Danger by Colonel Gueterbock about TA cuts
D4920/2/5/6
1948-50
Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association: plans for drill hall, etc., Eastern
Avenue (place not specified) (uncatalogued)
D2593
1949-82
Visitors’ book for Cheltenham TA centre, Arle Road
D4920/1/5/4
1951
Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association: official scheme and standing
orders; rolls of association and affiliated bodies
MI 9 and 10
(1950s)
Photograph of HAA RA(TA): “The Cheltenham Gunners”
D4920/2/5/50
1944
Photograph of guns, tanks and personnel of 312 (Glos) AAA regiment
RA(TA) on manoeuvres in Bude
Nominal roll and confidential reports of Territorial Army officers
D4920/2/5/15
Territorial Army: query concerning the safeguarding of regimental property in
view of re-organisations
D4920/3/4/8
1964-67
Post 1965
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D4920/1/5/11
1971-84
Staff lists and nominal rolls
D4920/
1/6/16/2
1974-78,
1981
Territorial Army: review and policy
D4920/
1/6/1/2-3
1979
Article on the Oldown (near Tockington) Territorial troop, 1905-1920, by E.V.
Garrett
D4920/2/6/3
1985
Photographs of Territorial Army intake: A Squadron The Queen’s Own
Hussars and C Squadron the 14/20th King’s Hussars
D4920/2/6/29
n.d.
The Royal Wessex Yeomanry – typescript history & structure
MI 48
The Gloucestershire Collection features various printed articles and papers including
arrangements for field day and review of local Territorials at Gloucester, 19 July 1913;
strength of units administered by the Gloucestershire Territorial Association, September
1915; and copies of The Gloucestershire Parade, the Territorial Army’s own newspaper,
1948-49
Records held elsewhere
The National Archives
Useful records include the following:
Conditions of service for Militia officers joining the Special Reserve, 1907-08
Records of the Territorial Force Advisory Council, selected years 1906-46
Files concerning conditions of service for volunteers, 1945-48
Records of property and finance, 1903-51
Returns showing headquarters of units and outlying drill stations, 1913
Various orders of battle, 1948-67
Weekly strength returns, 1914-20
Drill hall locations, 1936-44
First World War service records
Various medal and award records, from c1900
Various operational records for the First and Second World Wars
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ROYAL NAVY
The Royal Navy might be said to date from the reign of Henry VIII when he developed a
large fleet to counteract the threat from Scotland, France and the Empire in the first half of
the 16th century and organised a better administration for its control. In 1546 a Council of
the Marine was set up. This would later evolve into the Navy Board, responsible for the daily
running of the Navy until 1832, when it was amalgamated into the Board of Admiralty.
In the first half of the 17th century, the navy was divided into three squadrons to provide
improved tactical organisation, each equipped with an admiral, vice-admiral and rearadmiral. Under Charles II and James II, the Admiralty was created as a department of state
and the Navy moulded into a permanent, national force with support facilities and institutions
- the basis of the modern Royal Navy.
During the 19th century, conditions for seamen improved. The infamous “press gangs”,
which had forcibly recruited men from the merchant navy and elsewhere, declined as
seamen became part of a permanent, uniformed military service, trained to deal with everchanging technologies. Schools were also set up at Dartmouth and Greenwich to train
officers. By 1914, the Navy had developed into the recognisably modern institution it is
today.
Records held at Gloucestershire Archives
Among the records held, the following are of particular significance:
Correspondence of Captain Francis Reynolds, 1765-1782 [D340a/C28-31]. These
refer to a variety of naval matters and the War against France, Spain and the
American Colonies. The papers include letters from Admiral Sir John Jervis (Lord St.
Vincent), Admiral Lord Howe and Samuel, First Viscount Hood. The same collection
includes letters to Thomas Reynolds from Admiral Sir George Byng, 1706-07 [D340a
C27].
Papers relating to the naval career of Admiral Frank Sotheron of Kirklington,
Nottinghamshire, 1793-1837 [D1571 F794-819]. These include commissions, orders
and correspondence, with the log book of HMS Excellent, 1803-06, a report on the
Battle of Trafalgar, crew lists c.1790 and 1792, a list of Dutch squadrons from
Surinam and of officers in the Dutch navy, 1799, a plan of the Russian fleet, 1801,
and orders from Lord Nelson.
Papers relating to the naval career of Captain Walter Grimston Bucknall Estcourt,
1819-45 [D1571 F509-551]. These include commissions, appointments, journals and
correspondence, with details of gunnery and naval tactics, 1821-24, papers
concerning the capitulation of the Spanish garrison of Callao, Peru, orders to Sir John
Franklin (Captain of HMS Rainbow), 1830, a memorandum of Guidance for Medical
Officers, 1836, and papers concerning the slave trade. There are also printed
Parliamentary Papers and correspondence concerning the outbreak of fever on HMS
Éclair, 1843-47, and a collection of maps and charts relating to the African coast and
elsewhere, 1809-46.
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Orders and letters of Admiral Sir George Rooke, 1694-1702 [D1833 X1-4, Z9], who
was in command of the fleet that captured Gibraltar in 1704.
A list of ships in the Royal Navy with names of captains and numbers of men and
guns, 1672 [D2026/F10].
Correspondence and papers of Capt. Henry Berkeley, 1843-98 [D2781 and D3752/15]. He commanded HMS Lynx during the Zanzibar Rebellion, 1859. The papers
include commissions and testimonials, notes about the expeditions of Captain Speke
and Dr. Livingstone, and references to slavery.
Letter from Captain James Cook, 1772, describing how he “explored more of the
great Southern Sea than all who have gone before me … saw the transit of Venus …
and steered southward in search of the so much before talked of Southern continent,
which we did not find …” [D1022/21]
Facsimile of letter from Horatio Nelson to Commodore Linzee requesting an order to
supply rope for HMS Agamemnon, c.1793 [D2202 Box 51]
See also:
n.d.
Catalogue of maritime records held in Gloucestershire Archives
MS 122
And “Maritime Information: A Guide to Libraries and Sources of Information in the United
Kingdom (4th Edition, 2004) by R. Fenton, N. Briody & M. MacDonald – a copy of which is
available for reference in the Searchroom Library [ROL H23].
Documentary sources held at Gloucestershire Archives
1557
Appointment of William Wintour as Master of Ordnance and Surveyor of
Ships
D421/A1/3
1561-69
Naval ordnance accounts of Admiral William Wyntour
D421/X1
(MF334/3)
1582
Declaration of acquittal of charges of piracy against John Wyntour during
Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the world
D1799/T3
(c.1585)
Anecdote about Sir Richard Grenville by Sir Walter Raleigh, printed in the
Naval Chronicle
D3549/
17/5/15
(1602)
Court martial proceeding concerning HMS Gloucester
Photocopy
178
1626
Copy appointment of Sir William Guise as Vice-Admiral and order to
summon seamen for service
D128/22-23
1628, 1640/1
Propositions concerning the provisioning of the Army and Navy, 1628;
supply of 6 ships to patrol the western seas, 1640/1
D7115
Vol.I/23 & 58
1652
Letter from the Irish Commissioners, Dublin to the Lord President and the
rest of the Council of State concerning problems with supplying their
warships with food
D7348/4
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(1660)
Letters concerning the felling of timber in the Forest of Dean for the Navy
1660-c.1662
Authorization to John Witt to deliver timber to Daniel Furzer, shipwright, at
Lydney; draft petition to Parliament of the inhabitants of Dean about the
underestimation of timber reserves in the Forest, the ease with which timber
could be provided for shipbuilding at Lydney and for general Navy use, and
the desirability of terminating Sir John Wintour’s lease
(1670)
Order to fell trees in Lea Bailey to build a frigate
Photocopy
919/6
(1671)
Survey of the Forest of Dean by Samuel Pepys, as one of the Navy
Commissioners [copy of MS 2265, Pepys Library, Cambridge]
D3921/I/49
1672
List of ships in the Royal Navy, with names of captains and numbers of guns
and men
D2026/F10
1672
Copy Order in Council to JPs to prepare lists of all the seamen in the county
D9125/921
1672
Constables to issue warrants to return lists of seamen to supply the fleets
Q/SO 2a
Easter 1672
1677
Assessment for building 30 ships, Swindon
D2375/X1
1678
Letter to JPs requiring them to issue warrants to prepare schedules “of all
Seamen, Bargemen and Watermen” in the county
D9125/922
Late 17th
century
Copy memorandum to Samuel Pepys, secretary to the Admiralty, about
naval chaplains, with related prayers
D3549/6/4/95
1682
Court martial concerning the loss of the HMS Gloucester
Photocopy
842
1694-96
Commissions, orders and letters to Admiral Sir George Rooke concerning
the Mediterranean fleet. They include reference to those taken into slavery
in North Africa by the Barbary Corsairs and information of the French fleet
and its dispositions
D1833/X1-2
1700-1703
Order and letter books of Admiral Sir George Rooke, including lists of ships,
crews and guns, details of the expedition against Cadiz, 1702, and names of
ships taken or burnt at Rodendello
D1833/X3-4
1702
Thanks of the chief and warrant officers of the Royal Navy for E.J.C.
Morton’s efforts on their behalf in Parliament
D1021/7/12
1704-07
Letters concerning naval matters to Thomas Reynolds from Admiral Sir
George Byng, Lady Byng and Captain Samuel Vincent RN. Includes
reference to prizes taken, the Siege of Alicante and naval abuses
D340a/C27
1708-1837
Papers and prints relating to Sir George Rooke
D1833/Z9
c.1726-47
Log books and letter books kept by the Honourable Edward Legge, 4th son
of the 2nd Lord Dartmouth, Commodore, Royal Navy
D678/2
F14/1-5
c.1727-1780
Papers relating to impressment: cuttings citing cases; Acts of Parliament on
impressment (with annotations by Granville Sharp); manuscript against
pressing by general Oglethorpe: The Sailor’s Advocate
D3549/
13/3/36-38
1730-32
Captain’s expenses on the Eleonora’s voyage from Bristol to Africa and
America
D2078
Box 24/5
1737
Description and draught of newly-invented machine for carrying vessels into
or out of harbour, port or river
D10637
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Photocopy
919/6
D2026/X20
1739
Letter to the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire to impress
“straggling seamen” for the navy
D1571/F864
1743
Letter from H Fane to N Jackson advising him to send his son with a
Captain of an East Indiaman rather than the King’s Navy
D153/65
1744-46
Papers concerning the transit of a draft of recruits from England to Gibraltar
and Minorca
D2026/
X38-41,
43-44
1750
Letter from H.Harnage to uncle, William Bromley, concerning the
possibilities of command and advancement in the Navy
D153/112
1751-53
Letter book of Sir William Codrington with many references to naval activity
in the West Indies during the War, 1756-63, “this destructive German War”
D1610/C6
c.1760
Poem “Naval Arithmetic” on Admiral Byng
D3398/1/13/3
1761
Request from Robert Gidley of Honiton to Edward Weston [Under Secretary
of State] that Francoise Bourdet (Captain privateer Fortune, recently
captured by George Edgecome in the Hero) be allowed to return to France
because of the sickness of his father
D1022/13
1761
Request for the release of a French Captain captured by the Man of War
Hero
D1022/13
1761
Letter from Captain Francis Reynolds RN in the Weazle mentioning a
skirmish with an enemy privateer
D340a/C32/1
1762
D1833/F7/11
1763-65
Letter from Henry Rooke referring to the capture of his ship by French
privateers
Accounts of prize money paid to the crew of the HMS Phoenix
1765-1804
Correspondence of Captain Francis Reynolds
D340a/
C28-32
1763-65
Accounts of prize money paid to the crew of the HMS Phoenix (commanded
by Captain Christopher Bethell)
D1610/X3
1765-1782
Letters to Captain Francis Reynolds on various naval matters. Include
letters from Admiral John Jervis (Lord St. Vincent), Captain Alexander Hood
(later Lord Bridport), Admiral Lord Howe and Lord Sandwich
D340a/
C30/1-56
1771
Letter from Granville Sharp about the desertion of a boy pickpocket from the
Navy, with related papers
D3549/
13/1/G5
1772
Letter from Captain James Cook to Captain John Walker at Whitby
describing how he “explored more of the great Southern Sea than all who
have gone before me … saw the transit of Venus … and steered southward
in search of the so much before talked of Southern continent, which we did
not find …”
D1022/21
c.1727-1813
Papers of a campaigner against impressment
D3549/
13/3/36-38
1776
Memorandum of agreement by John Tilley, waterman, to deliver up a
“protection” against impressment for the navy if he ceases to be in employ
of William and James Sharp
D3549/
12/1/17
1779
Death of a vagrant “dressed somewhat like a sailor having trousers on”
[Tytherington]
P344 IN 1/3
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D1610/X3
1779
Commission of William Crul as Rear Admiral (signed by the Prince of
Orange)
D340a/X18
1779
Letter to from an officer in Admiral Samuel Barrington’s fleet mentioning the
large number of English deserters in the West Indies
D1610/C10
1779
Letter to Sir William Codrington describing the capture of a sloop and
schooner by a Spanish privateer
D1610/C11
1779-80
Naval orders
D340/X17
1780
Letter from the Bishop of Waterford, Ireland referring to the capture by the
French of a vessel off Waterford
D8342/1
1781
Letters to Thomas Lord Ducie from Captain Francis Reynolds RN including
reference to action against the French Admiral De Grasse and the capture
of Yorktown.
D340a/C28
1782-83
Letters to Captain Francis Reynolds RN from Samuel, 1st Viscount Hood
whilst on active service in the West Indies. Include reference to future King
William IV (then a midshipman) and defeat of the combined French &
Spanish fleet off Cape Spartel
D340a/C31
1782-83
Order to John Smith to pay prize money to Henry Willis, Master’s Mate of
HMS Dance
D547a/F33
1783
The General Evening Post [London] 17-19 April: note in contemporary hand
about sailors unrigging ships in the Thames
D2218/3/61
1789-1837
Papers concerning the naval career of Admiral Frank Sotheron of
Kirklington, Nottinghamshire
D1571/
F794-819
1789-1804
Letter, order and memoranda books of Captain Frank Sotheron: HMS Fury,
Romney, Latona and Excellent
D1571/
F794-801
1790
Account of a successful engagement with a privateer
D214/F7/113
1790
Letter to Captain Francis Reynolds RN from H. Locker concerning
armament of the Navy against Spain and fitness of the crews. Includes lists
of ships
D340a/
C32/33
1790
Letter to Captain Francis Reynolds RN referring to Lord Hood’s appointment
to command a fleet
D340a/
C32/36
c.1790
Diagrams of signalling flags used on merchant and warships
D1571/F802
c.1790, 1792
Crew lists [anon and HMS Romney]
D1571/
F803-804.
1792
General abstract of Parliamentary Acts concerning the payment of petty
seamen, N.C.O.s and marines [Hardwicke]
P161 MI 3
1792-1800
Letters and orders relating to Captain Frank Sotheron’s commands (HMS
Fury, Romney, Latona and Excellent]
D1571/
F806-808
n.d.
(c.1793/94)
Facsimile of letter from Horatio Nelson to Commodore Linzee requesting an
order to supply rope for HMS Agamemnon
D2202
Box 51
[Office ref.
1596]
1793-1801
List of French, Spanish and Dutch ships lost, taken and destroyed
D1571/F209
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1795
Decision to hire Thomas Gregor to serve in the Navy to comply with a
Parliamentary Act to raise serving men [Dymock]
P125 VE 2/2
1795
Notice of a bounty given to a man to serve for the parish in His Majesty’s
Navy [Hawkesbury]
P170 OV 1/6
1795
Order for raising men for the Navy [Rodborough]
P272a
CO 2/1
1795
Resolution of parish officers, various parishes, to raise 2 men for the Navy
[Winchcombe]
P368/1
VE 2/3
1795
Expenses of High Constable for raising quotas and paying bounties
Q/SO
Mich. 1795
1795
Rate for naval volunteers [Minchinhampton]
P217 VE 2/1
1795
Return of persons enrolled as volunteers to serve in HM Navy
D1170/9
c.1795
Abstract of Acts of Parliament concerning the wages of petty officers and
seamen
P137 IN 4/1
1795-96
Provision of men for the Navy [Cirencester]
P86/1 VE 2/1
1796
Justices’ order to pay a bounty to a naval volunteer [Wickwar]
P366 OV 6/1
1796
Certificates of capability to serve as Royal Naval volunteers [Newland]
P227 OV 7/1
1796
Navy rate [Gloucester St. Owen]
P154/16
OV 1/2
1796-97
Correspondence of Captain William Ricketts, Captain of HMS La
Magicienne whilst at sea
D8460/
8/1/2-3
1797
Letter from Charles Edwin mentioning the fleet mutiny at Sheerness
D214/F1/180
1797
Celebrations at Stroud to mark the defeat of the Dutch fleet
D4693/14
1797
Printed forms of prayers of thanksgiving for Admiral Duncan's victory over
the Dutch fleet and for “many signal and important victories” [Hardwicke]
P161 IN 4/6
1797-1800
Papers concerning capture of smuggling ship by HMS Latona
D1571/F808
1798
Payments to mothers of men killed in the Battle of the Nile [Dursley]
P124 IN 1/7
(1798-1799)
Lord St. Vincent & the blockade of Cadiz, as mentioned in reminiscences of
General Sir George Whitmore
D45/F43
1799
List of officers in the Dutch Navy
D1571/F809
1799
List of Dutch squadrons from Surinam
D1571/F806
1799
Request to Charles Bragge to use his influence to secure a post of
captaincy for George Tobin, who sailed with Bligh in the Providence
D421/X7
late 18th
century
Abstract of sailing and fighting signals (uncatalogued)
D2025
Box 139
18th century
Engravings of ships of war of first and third rate, showing details of hulls and
rigging (uncatalogued)
D2700
Portfolio 5
1801
Plan of the Russian fleet and orders from Lord Nelson
D1571/F806
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1801
Letter to Captain Francis Reynolds RN from Admiral Lord Hood concerning
vacancies for boys at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich
D340a/
C32/54
1801-20
Particulars of the naval service of Henry Howell, marine [Nympsfield]
P234 IN 1/2
1802
Receipt for wages and prize money
D1086/F204
1802
Papers regarding claim for compensation by Captain John Haynes for
losses sustained in the wreck of the Ponsborne in 1796 (while transporting
troops from Barbados to Grenada)
D421/
X10/47-58
(and
D421/X7/3445)
1803
Certificates of Arlingham and Frampton-on-Severn men as Sea Fencibles
D149/X28
1803-05
Papers concerning the taking of the French privateer Le Diable off the West
Indian coast by Ensign W H Willis
D1023/F10
1803-08
Letters and papers of Admiral Frank Sotheron concerning actions and
events in the war
D1571/
F810-12
1803-06
Log of HMS Excellent, with an account of prizes, letters and orders, and a
report on the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
D1571/
F810-812
1805
Article in The Times concerning the Battle of Trafalgar
D4402/4/1
1805
Facsimile of The Times reporting on the Battle of Trafalgar
P374 MI 2
1805
List of subscribers to a fund for the Trafalgar wounded, widows and orphans
[Kingscote]
P191 IN 1/4
1805
Thanksgiving for Nelson's victory at Trafalgar
P193 IN 1/3
1805
Form of prayer, including for Trafalgar [Somerford Keynes]
P303 IN 4/1
1805
Sermon preached to mark the victory at Trafalgar [Tewkesbury]
P329 IN 4/5
1805
Notes by William Sandilands on his naval service aboard HMS Victory
P329/2
CW 3/11
1805
Contributions from the Royal Gloucestershire Yeomanry Cavalry to the relief
fund for the families of men killed at Trafalgar
D4920/1/1
1805
References to sailors with passes [Cam]
P69 OV 2/2
1805-08
Letters and orders received by Frank Sotheron when Captain of HMS
Excellent including reports of the Battle of Trafalgar
D1571/F812
1806
Letters to Charles Grey, Lord Howick, as 1st Lord of the Admiralty, from
senior naval officers concerning naval appointments, with draft replies
D2002/8/8
1807
Printed letter to incumbents from the Navy Pay Office concerning assistance
to seamen's families
D269b/B10
1809-46
Maps and charts: include African coast, Canaries, Cape Verde Islands and
South Atlantic
D1571/
F539-540
1812
Warrant for payment of prize money [Somerford Keynes]
P303 IN 4/1
1815
Note concerning the burial of the child of a sailor’s widow [Nether Swell]
P322 IN 1/6
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1816-17
Letters of Lieutenant J.W. Brown serving on the HMS Myrmidon in the
Mediterranean Sea
D1241
Box 12,
bundle 5
1819-21
Commissions of Frank Sotheron as Vice-Admiral of the Blue and White
squadrons
D1571/
F814-815
1819-45
Papers concerning the naval career of Walter Grimston Bucknall Estcourt:
many references to naval life, lists of ships, letter books and logs; also to the
slave trade and health at sea
D1571/
F509-552
1821
Papers regarding William Ball, a discharged turnkey, who is said to have
been “fighting close to the gallant Nelson when he fell”
D471/X8
1821-44
“Gunnery & Naval Tactics”: includes experiments at Sandown, 1842 and
abstract of the log of HMS Rainbow
D1571/F111
1821-59
Letters to Captain Huntley and Anne Huntley concerning his “patent
purchase dead eye” (a nautical rigging device)
D48/
C2, 4, 7-10
1827
Copy will of Thomas Lovesy of Charlton Kings, lieutenant in the Navy
D181/III/T15
1828
Copy will of Admiral Martin Josse Guise of Lima, Peru, made on departure
of sailing in the war against Columbia. Gives details of his naval exploits.
D326/F81
1829-1861
Papers concerning the naval career of Henry Charleton
D4432/
4/1-12
1830
Orders to Sir John Franklin, Captain of HMS Rainbow
D1571/F516
1830-32
Journals of Algernon Strickland while at sea in HMS Undauted
D1245/F40
1833-59
Forest of Dean: correspondence relating to supply of timber for the Navy
D9096/
F16/36
1835-36
Papers concerning HMS Pique [Captain Rous], including prints, orders and
court martial
D1571/
F516-517
1836
“Memorandum for the Guidance of Medical Officers and Practitioners in
examining seamen for the Royal Navy”
D1571/F518
1836-40
Letters from the Admiralty to W.G.B. Estcourt about raising men in Liverpool
D1571/
F518-519
1837
Correspondence concerning beneficiaries of naval charities
D1571/F819
1840
Letter outlining pay and conditions of service of ship’s apprentice
D7213/3
1841-42
Journal of W.G.B. Estcourt concerning assistance to the Indiaman Heroine
(wrecked) and the felucca Richard (captured by pirates)
D1571/F522
1841-45
Letter books of HMS Lizard and HMS Éclair and log of Eclair
D1571/
F523, F542
1841-46
Papers concerning HMS Éclair, with reference to the slave trade and the
outbreak of fever
D1571/
F523-536
c.1843
List of ships in the Royal Navy, including tonnage and numbers of guns
D1571/F524
1843-48
Printed Parliamentary Papers and letters regarding the Niger Expedition,
Epidemic aboard HMS Eclair, Quarantine Laws and fever at Boa Vista
D1571/
F545-551
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1849-1898
Papers concerning the naval career of Captain Henry Berkeley RN. Include
commissions, references to the Zanzibar rebellion, 1859, Captain Speke’s
expedition in Africa, conveyance of relief to Dr. Livingstone, surveying of
River Zambesi by boats from HMS Lynx and naval patronage
D3752/1-5
1852-53
Correspondence concerning yellow fever aboard HMS Dauntless and HMS
Esk
Copies made by Admiral J.W.D. Dundas of “confidential orders” from
Britannia off Malta and to Britannia off Sebastopol. (uncatalogued)
D1571/F552
1855
Letter from M J Macready of Cheltenham to Edmund White, a sailor on
HMS St. Jean d’Acre in the Black Sea fleet, complaining about the Crimean
War
D2218/3/11
1857-1860
Journal of Edward B Hale, Lieutenant Colonel of the 82nd Regiment, of his
voyages to and from India on HMS Adventure, with some account of a
military expedition on arrival
D1086/F188
1857-1876
Papers relating to the naval career of Stanhope Grove Price
D3398/
1/3/11-12
1859-60
Papers concerning the role of the navy in quelling the Zanzibar rebellion
D3752/1, 5
c.1859-60
Maps and charts relating to African waters
D3752/4
1861
Notes relating to the African expeditions of Captain Speke and Dr.
Livingstone
D3752/5
(1864)-1923
Letter from Admiral Sir James Goodrich with notes on his career
D6919/10/5
1865
Letters concerning the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth
D1799/C61
1867
Reference to William Sandilands on board the HMS Victory (memorial at
Holy Trinity Church, Tewkesbury)
P329/2
CW 3/11
1875-76
Log book, HMS Raleigh (uncatalogued)
D340
Box 9/2
1882-1919
Papers of John Brinkworth of Berkeley: certificate of discharge from the
navy; indenture of apprenticeship as navigator and pilot to Enoch
Brinkworth; pilot’s licences
D3454/1
1894
Plans for the construction of a swimming pool on the training ship Arethusa
D4335/206
19th century
Letters home from naval officers engaged on overseas duties
D4582/
5/14, 6/6-7
and 6/12
1911
The Forest of Dean and the British Navy: reprint of a lecture
D4380/2/5
1912
Sale of the personal effects of S.H. Cowper-Coles of Crickhowell,
Monmouthshire, including items of naval history
D2299/
2/11/53
1913-19
Diary kept by a stoker on board HMS Gloucester
Photocopy
1539
1913-16
Diary of Granville Murray-Browne whilst serving on HMS Indefatigable in the
Mediterranean and at Scapa Flow, with copy of the Tenedos Times,
produced by the Mediterranean Fleet. Also, photograph of Indefatigable and
notification of deaths of Granville and of Orde Murray-Browne
D6919/9/2-3
1852-54
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D340
Box 1
(acc. 7458)
c.1914-17
Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association
D4084
Boxes 17/8,
38/7
1914-19
Scrapbooks compiled by Mr. F.E. Cardwell concerning war-related events
(very detailed, covering a great variety of topics) including many references
to naval actions
D4180/1-4
1915
Reference in diary of F W Baldwin to the sinking of the Lusitania
D5931/1/1
1915-20
Royal Navy slide rule tests
D6035/3/1
1917-19
Royal Naval service record for Albert Brookes
D7112/1
1918
Plans, papers, photograph of concrete barges built at Hempsted and used
to take munitions from Dover to Calais
D4325/1-5
1922
Photograph in The Daily Mirror of the British submarine H42, “lost with all
hands”
D2569/
27/53/13
1923-29
Scrapbook of Captain Charles Allen, including reports on the performance
of submarines
D1302/10/1
1930-52
Service certificate, conduct records, related papers and photographs of
Samuel Spiers of Gloucester, a serviceman in the Royal Navy
D5286
1937
Videotape recording of excerpt from home movie made of the visit of
submarines H33 and H49 from Portsmouth to Sharpness and Gloucester
D5673
1937-56
Papers concerning the launch of HMS Gloucester
GBR
L6/23 &
B2/119,
B2/3080
1940
Admiralty: cloth patterns [William Playne & Co. Ltd, Longford Mills,
Minchinhampton]
D4644/4/15
1941
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Drawing Office
Requisition books: Admiralty – 4000 U.P. single rail projectors
D4791/
21/497A
1941-42
HMS Cotswold and her crew
D3471/1312
1942
Adoption of warship by parish council [Lower Slaughter]
P296a
PC 3/11
[1942]
Adoption of HMS Cotswold in Warship Week [Ebrington]
P131a
PC 39/1
[1942]
“The Eagle’s Haunting”: a survivor of HMS Eagle. The story of A G
Partridge’s experiences in the Mediterranean in 1942, written by his
daughter
D9310
1943
The Warships of Gloucester, 1654-1941 by V.F.L. Millard and T. HannamClark
D3921/II/33
1944-45
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Drawing Office
Requisition books: Admiralty Signal establishment –road/rail containers
D4791/
21/506A,
510A
c.1950
Note on an iron used for branding trees required by the Navy, Coleford
D2210/5
c.1954-1973
Biographical notes on Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808), first hydrographer
to the Admiralty
D245/V17
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[1960s-70s]
Picture(s) of sea-going vessels
D7841/2/4
1982
Programme for the launch of the HMS Gloucester
D7841/2/1
1983
Dedication of the standard of the Royal Naval Association, Dursley and
District Branch
D7841/2/7
1986
Bell of HMS Trident [Dursley]
P124
CW 3/13/24
1986
Correspondence from Dorothy Kendall Pearson and printed material
concerning the service for the officers and ratings of HMS Gloucester, sunk
in 1941, including programme
D3558/184
n.d.
Postcard showing the HMS Woolaston with notes on “TON” class
D5555/3/15
20th century
Notes on the career of Andrew Shilling, Commander of the Fleet (early 17th
century)
D5626/15/12
2000
Notes on the personal details of Albert Knight (d. 1953), certificate of his
service with the Royal Navy, and copy photograph
D8736 Vol.5
2003
Chronology of War Service: HMS Cruiser Gloucester {Lieutenant Cmdr. G.
Mason RN]
MI 52
Records held elsewhere
1. The
National Archives
Useful records include the following:
Admirals’ journals, 1702-1916, Masters’ logs, 1672-1871, Captains’ logs, 1669-1852,
Ships’ logs, 1799-1967 and Records of explorations, 1757-1904
Operational records for the First World War, comprising: Admiralty papers, Ships’
logs, Station records, War diaries, Photographs, Casualty records,
Ships/Squadrons/Stations reports of telegrams, signals and operations, and records
of convoys, minesweeping and the blockade.
Operational records for the Second World War, comprising: records of the Secretariat
of Admiralty, including daily operations reports and analyses of U-boat attacks, Ships’
logs, records of Naval Intelligence, records of particular stations and commands, War
diaries, photographs, and research and design records.
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MERCHANT SHIPPING
Whilst not “military” in the strict sense of the term, the role of the substantial merchant fleet
was a key one in supporting British sea power. The strength of Great Britain and her Empire
was very much based upon her ability to maintain the trade and supplies without which the
wealth that underpinned the armed forces and ensued the security of the British Isles could
not have been created and sustained. In addition, merchantmen could themselves carry
significant armament and the distinction between naval vessel, privateer and merchantman
in the fighting sense was not, at least in earlier times, always clear-cut. Some of the vessels
used by the East India Company carried a substantial armament. Indeed, at the Battle of
Copenhagen, 1801, William Bligh commanded a converted East Indiaman during Nelson’s
attack upon the Danish fleet and shore defences.
Gloucestershire Archives has a copy of A Guide to the Crew Agreements and official log
books, 1863-1913 held at County Record Offices of the British Isles compiled by Roberta
Thomas, 1991 [AC 204]. These records were generated in pursuance of the Merchant
Shipping Acts of 1835 and later. All vessels registered at over 15 tons were required to be
registered and return certain documents twice a year to the registry of Shipping and Seaman
(Board of Trade). The main documents concerned are crew lists and agreements, and
“official logs” for foreign going ships. These logs are not the ship’s log proper, but a record of
particular incidents, such as deaths or disturbances, which had to be reported to the registrar
of Shipping and Seamen.
The Public Record Office sampled the records by retaining every tenth year (e.g. 1865 etc.),
while the National Maritime Museum took all documents relating to certain notable ships,
plus a random sample. The remaining records were offered to local record offices under s.
3(6) of the Public Records Act 1958.
The lists held by Gloucestershire Archives [D3080] are arranged as a table showing vessels
for which crew lists are available in each year. The list gives official number, ships name,
date of registration, tonnage, number of documents and area of trade. Crew lists include
name of ship, owner and master; for the crew, name, age, place of birth, date and place of
joining ship, date and place of discharge, and rank; and list of voyages made over the six
monthly period covered by the return.
Another useful series are the Registers of British Ships, [D4292] deposited by H.M.
Customs & Excise in 1981, relating to ships registered at the Port of Gloucester, 1824-1855.
This statutory registry actually dates from 1786, although a new scheme commenced 1824.
The records are essentially documents of title, providing information on ownership. Details
include names of ship and master, when and where built, and a description with dimensions.
For the Gloucester series, the oldest is the John & Mary, built at Longney in 1759, and the
most recent was built in 1850.
The logs of the East Indiamen William Fairlie, 1829-31 and Hillsborough, 1793 [D1292 and
D1439], and the journal of a ship’s surgeon, 1836-41 [D543] are particularly interesting.
Merchant Navy: records held at Gloucestershire Archives
1719-1894
Accounts of the Codrington family with merchants in England for the
shipping and sale of West Indian produce
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D1610/
A58-70
1736-66
Customs Letter Book: Port of Gloucester
D6471/1
1740-1751
Accounts of Benjamin King for freight of supplies to Antigua and Barbuda,
shipment of rum and sugar to England, hire of slaves and supply of beef
cattle to the Navy
D1610/A1-2
1743
Letter from H. Fane to N. Jackson advising him to send his son with a
Captain of an East Indiaman rather than the King’s Navy
D153/65
c.1790
Diagrams of signalling flags used on merchant and warships
D1571/F802
1793
Log of the East Indiaman Hillsborough” (uncatalogued)
D1439
1824-55
Registers of British ships, Port of Gloucester
D4292
1829-31
Log of the East Indiaman William Fairlie on voyage to Bombay and China
(uncatalogued)
D1292
1836-41
Journal of G.E. Stanger of Fleet, Lincolnshire, ship’s surgeon, including
account of voyage to Australia and whaling expeditions (uncatalogued)
D543
1840
Detailed account for guns supplied to the yacht Gitana with receipt
D332/Z2
1854
Instructions to the Royal Steam Packet company to avoid capture by the
Russians
Crew Lists
D4432/4/8
1896
The original letters of the English Pilot, William Adams, written from Japan
between AD 1611 and 1617
D2002/7/3/5
1914-16
Scrapbook compiled by Mr. F.E. Cardwell, including sinking of the Lusitania,
with pictures of the ship and passengers
D4180/1-4
c.1916
Account of the sinking of the Lusitania
D6/F167/5
1863-1913
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D3080
ROYAL AIR FORCE, ROYAL FLYING CORPS, ROYAL NAVAL AIR
SERVICE, ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS, ROYAL CANADIAN AIR
FORCE & GLOSTER AIRCRAFT COMPANY [GAC]
In 1879, a balloon section of the Royal Engineers was established for the purposes of aerial
reconnaissance. However, the use of balloons by the military was fairly limited and it was not
until the creation of the Army Aircraft Factory at Farnborough in 1911 that a specific Air
Battalion was raised to train men in handling balloons, airships and aircraft. In 1912 the
various small, existing military flying units were merged to form the Royal Flying Corps.
During the first years of the Great War control of military aircraft policy was still the remit of
various separate boards and committees, and the naval wing broke away to form the Royal
Naval Air Service. Finally, in 1918, the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service were
unified as the Royal Air Force, the professional head of which became Chief of the Air Staff.
The Gloster Aircraft Company’s premises in Brockworth and Hucclecote played a key role in
World War II in producing front line planes that saw action against the Axis powers. It was, in
consequence, on Luftwaffe target maps for bombing [D4305, D3558/114] and was attacked
in 1942 when several lives were lost in the immediate vicinity of the works. Other prime
targets in Gloucestershire were Filton and Cheltenham.
Records held at Gloucestershire Archives
1914-15
References to Zeppelin raids in diaries of W T Swift
D3981/45-46
1914-19
Scrapbooks compiled by Mr. F.E. Cardwell concerning war-related events
(very detailed, covering a great variety of topics). They include references to
Zeppelin raids
D4180/1-4
1915-1918
Papers about Richard Sebastian Dickinson and his career in the Royal
Naval Air Service. Includes description of bombing raid on Constantinople,
1916, and award of DSO
D6/F177/1-3
c.1915c.1925
H H Martyn & Company, Cheltenham: photographs of propeller
manufacture, workshops and employees
D5922/3/6/2
1916
Letters from a pilot describing bombing raids in Turkey
D6/F177/3
1916-19
Letters from men serving in the Royal Flying Corps, 1916-19
D7101/6-8
1915-65
Draft history of the Gloster Aircraft Co., with specifications of aircraft and
brief details of operations
D2147
1917-21
Records of service with the Royal Engineers, Royal Flying Corps and Royal
Air Force
D4084
Box 61/7
1917-48
Gloster Aircraft Company contracts (untitled)
D5922/2/3-6
1918
References to service as pilot, with photographs
D4693/16
1918
Forestry notebooks of John Irvine of Chedworth [working for the
Government’s Timber Supply Department making surveys of woodlands in
the south-west and south Wales]: suitability of wood for aeroplanes
D9249/1
n.d.
Letter from C W Taylor mentioning a Zeppelin raid
D2240
Box 42
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c.1919
Photograph of airship over the Olveston area
D2604/2/93
c.1920c.1956
Gloster Aircraft Company - Photograph Album (indexed). Includes: types of
aircraft designed since c.1910; personalities; pilots; factory and staff;
certificates of aircraft performance, 1922-46; Schneider trophy contests
D4676/1/1
1921
Correspondence concerning return of requisition land by Air Ministry, used
for Brockworth aerodrome
D6666/1/26
c.1921c.1954
Photograph of various Gloster Aircraft Company aircraft. Item 1/28, of a
Gloster F/940, is with a group that includes Frank Whittle, c.1943.
D4676/
1/2-37
[1924]
Colour coded section of 6 inch O.S. map including aerodrome land at
Brockworth
D7942/558
1936-53
Files relating to Rissington aerodrome
K1850
(1930s) –
1990s
Transcript copy of the memoirs of Sir Robert Hunt [former chairman of the
Dowty Group of Cheltenham]: includes his wartime work in the RAF
Technical Training Command. (The main Dowty Group archive is listed
under D8347)
D8456
1936-77
Planning correspondence concerning aerodromes and airports in
Gloucestershire
K1054
1939-43
German aerial photographs of bombing targets in Gloucestershire
D3558/114
1939-43
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Drawing Office
Requisition books: tank wagons for Air Ministry
D4791/
21/492A
(1939-45)
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
D6345/2/4
(1939-45)
Research notes on the RAF cemetery at Moreton-in-Marsh, with lists of
those who died and reports of flying accidents
D8736/1/4
1939-47
Papers relating to the wartime service of Geoffrey Warren Fisher in the
RAFVR, including pilot’s log book [Churchdown area], RAFVR log books,
records and memoranda, service and discharge papers and family letters
D6633/1/9
1940
German aerial photographs, maps and description showing the Gloster
Aircraft Co. works
D4305
1940
Log book of RAF pilot W.E. Kerr
D7746/4
1940
WESTRAF vol. 1, no. 1, November 1940, ed. Flying Officer F.W. Nadal
MI 34
1940
Articles in the Bath Chronicle and Herald about a German plane that
crashed, having a representation of Mr. Chamberlain’s umbrella painted on
the side; about RAF attacks on Germany; and about “screaming bombs”
falling in the South West countryside. Photograph of Berlin’s Templehof
Aerodrome, bombed by the RAF
D2659/
27/53/31
c.1940
Photographs of a dog handler
GPS 601/
65-66
c.1940
RAF Technical Training Command: memoirs of a training officer in
Cheltenham and elsewhere
D8456/1
1940-43
Files relating to Honeybourne and Long Marston aerodrome
K1850
1940-43
Ministry of Aircraft production: cloth patterns [William Playne & Co. Ltd,
Longford Mills, Minchinhampton]
D4644/4/15
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1940-80
Files relating to Moreton-in-Marsh aerodrome
K1850
1941
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Drawing Office
Requisition books: K.R.G. Aircraft Co. Ltd. – mild steel hexagon bars
D4791/
21/497A
1941
Battle of Britain August-October 1940 - an Air Ministry account
MI 40
1941
Aerial view of part of the area to be occupied by Chedworth airfield
D9249/9/13
1941-45
Files relating to Haresfield aerodrome
K1850
1942
Planning, two workshops, Gloster Aircraft Co. Ltd., Swindon [Cheltenham]
DA21/
710/31/11/42
1942
Occupation of Woodhouse, Almondsbury, by Bristol Aeroplane Company
D4365/E10
1942-43
Minutes of meetings of “Wings for Victory” committee, 1942-43
[Rangeworthy]
P264a
PC 1/3
1942-43
Papers relating to the requisition by the Air Ministry of Walmore Common
D4170/4/19
1943
Reference to Battle of Britain Sunday [Cam]
P69a
PC 1/12
1943
Official letter regarding the death of Acting Leading Airman Norman
Whiteside
D3790/1/10
1943
Requisitioning of land in Littleton-on-Severn by the Air Ministry
D4365/E34
c.1943
Photograph of 703 Squadron RAF football team, Eastington
D3489/11
1943-44
Photograph of Gloster Aircraft (Hucclecote factory) Typhoon manufacture
D5922
(acc 9160)
1944
Pucklechurch Congregational Church loaned for RAF services (as noted in
Church Meeting book, 1941-60)
D8697/2/3
1944
Planning, additional workshops, Bresson Aircraft Factory, Leckhampton
[Cheltenham]
DA21/
710/31/16/42
1945
References to visits to RAF Moreton-in-Marsh [Operational Training Unit] in
the diary of Ruby Timms
D882/71/1
c.1945
Gloster Aircraft Co. technical handbook for Meteor squadrons regarding
high speed flying problems
D4676/2/1
1945-46
Minutes of meeting of directors of Copeland-Chatterson & Co. Ltd of Stroud
concerning “the effect of ending the Japanese War on factory labour,
salesmen and aircraft work in the machine shop”
D9015/1/3
1946
Conversion of RAF wartime canteen buildings, Avening Court, to living
accommodation [Tetbury]
DA36/
710/2/216
1946
Conversion of hut used as wartime Officers’ Mess, Down Farm, Westonbirt,
to living accommodation [Tetbury]
DA36/
710/2/217
(1946-48)
Service register with services taken for the RAFVR in India and Burma [St.
Michael RAF Fairford]
P141 IN 1/29
1947
Short history & brochure of the Gloster Aircraft Co.
D5922/3/6/3
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1949
Programme and record of opening of the opening ceremony for the new
gates [made by H H Martyn of Cheltenham] at RCAF Station, Trenton,
Canada – including photographs
D6345/2/4
1949-60
Marked up Ordnance Survey sheets showing airfield safeguarded areas
K1820
1949-61
Sites of ant-aircraft gun emplacements
K1003/4
1951
Photograph of two tanks H Squadron, RGH, in Battle of Britain parade,
Cheltenham
D4920/2/5/14
1951
War Damage Commission: Plan of the Borough of Cheltenham [G. Gould
Marsland, Surveyor] on which are plotted places hit by high explosive bombs
(HEs) and sites of unexploded bombs (UXBs), 1940-42
D5027/3
1951-55
Tenders for cultivation and grazing rights at Fat Pritchetts (RAF) Kemble
(uncatalogued)
D5112
Box 3
bundle 28
1951-79
Papers relating to the first jet powered flight. Include: Hawker Siddeley
Dinner, with menu autographed by Frank Whittle and copies of speeches by
T O M Sopwith (chairman) and Sir John Slessor (Chief of the Air Staff),
photographs of guests, summary history of jet propulsion and Flight article
Honouring the Jet Pioneers; souvenir brochure by D N James on occasion
of unveiling a memorial to first British jet aircraft, 1979
D4676/3/1-3
c.1950s
Photographs of Gloster Aircraft Co. works in Brockworth
D4557/8/3
1955
Stopping up of footpath within Fairford RAF station [Cirencester]
DA22/132/74
1955-58
The Model Dairy, Gloucester: correspondence with RAF Quedgeley and
contract
D8612/1/1
1956
Photograph of RGH Daimler armoured cars passing the saluting base at
RAF Yeovilton Air Display, Somerset
D4920/2/5/36
1958,
1963-64
Press cuttings regarding closure of RAF establishment at Aston Down and
use of aerodrome as central stores for the Ministry of Aviation
D5277/
5/9, 20, 21
1959-62
Closure of highways at Aston Down RAF station under the Requisitioned
Land and War Works Acts [Cirencester]
DA22/
132/119
1961-68
Critchley Bros. Ltd.: examples of work produced for the Royal Observer
Corps
D4331/6/16
1962-85
Papers relating to Fairford U.S. station
K1851
1963-73
Fairford RAF station, various topics [Cirencester]
DA22/
132/48-49
1968, 1969
Tape recordings of the Central Band of the Royal Air Force, including
rendition of “The Dambusters”
D6112
[tapes 46,
54]
1973
Photograph of tree planting at RAF Lyneham
D6464/5/2
1976
Sea Harrier – The First of the New Wave by J W Fozard
D8280/4/7
1977-84
Photographs of No. 614 (Lydney) Squadron Air Training Corps
GPS 209/
19-24
1978-86
RAF Kemble: Papers of the dealings of the Transport & General Workers
Union (TGWU) with employers
D6375/1/3/10
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1979
Programme for unveiling of memorial to Gloster E28/39, Britain’s first jet
aircraft
D5922/3/6/1
1970s-1980s
Notes compiled by Brian Clark on aspects of the history of Brockworth
including Gloster Aircraft Co.
D5069/2/3
c.1980
Flight paths for RAF Fairford
K1836
1981
Copy lecture by J F Cuss on history of the Gloster Aircraft Co.
D4676/3/4
1982
Action Stations 5: Military Airfields of the South-West [C. Ashworth]
ROL D5
1983
Action Stations 6: Military Airfields of the Cotswolds and Central Midlands
[M. Bowyer]
ROL D5
1983
RAF Quedgeley: TGWU papers regarding proposed privatization of
management of defence accommodation stores at No. 7 Maintenance Unit
D6375/1/3/12
1986
“What were the location factors of the Second World War airfields on the
Cotswolds?” (“A” level project)
D7992/1/45
1988
Newspapers and magazine articles on aircraft produced by the Gloster
Aircraft Co.
D5922/3/6/5
[1980s]
Anonymous account of Chedworth Airfield
D9249/4/30
1990
Aerial photograph [Ordnance Survey] showing part of RAF Innsworth
D8564/
90/042
Photo no
287-288
1991
Commemorative booklet published by Gloucestershire Aviation Collection
for the anniversary of the first flight of the Gloster/Whittle E28/29
D8280/4/7
1994
The Old Photographs Series: Gloster Aircraft Company by D. James
ROL D4
1996
News cuttings about the closure of RAF Quedgeley
D8612/1/6
2003
British Built Aircraft, Vol. 2: South-West & Central England [R. Smith]
ROL D4
Nd
Illustrations from Flying Fury by James McCudden VC, Royal Flying Corps
D4140/34
Box 3
Nd
H H Martyn & Company: photograph of Royal Canadian Air Force memorial
D5922/3/5/1
Records held elsewhere
1. The
National Archives
Useful records include the following:
Operational records for the First World War: Correspondence of the Air Ministry; Air
Historical Branch records, c.1914-39
Second World War: War Cabinet minutes and memoranda; records of Chiefs of Staff;
Air Ministry’s periodical returns, summaries and bulletins, including daily records of
operations and weekly intelligence reports, 1939-45; records of Royal Air Force staff
detachments at military headquarters; records of various commands;
Operations
record books; Night and Day reports of bombing missions; photographs taken by
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reconnaissance aircraft; files of Ministry of Aircraft Production, and maps and
descriptions of airfields.
2. The Air Historical Branch (RAF)
The Branch, based at RAF Bentley Priory, Stanmore, Middlesex, maintains an archive of
classified policy and operational documents. These are normally transferred to The National
Archives after 30 years. It also holds an index of RAF casualties from 1939 onwards, aircraft
accident record cards dating from the inter-War years and a photographic archive.
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CONFLICTS: WARS & REBELLIONS
The Gloucester Borough Records include many references to conflicts in Tudor and early
Stuart times. The GBR catalogue contains an extensive subject index to the volumes GBR
B2/1 and GBR B3/1-3, 6-14 that includes “Military” and “Weapons”. The following gives a
general idea of the information that can be gleaned from these volumes, though for full and
comprehensive details the catalogues need to be consulted.
1486-1648
Official Memoranda Book [the Gloucester “Red Book”] -many references to
musters, numbers and names of men raised, and to events such as the
Northern Rebellion, 1537, and the assistance provided to Queen Mary
against the Duke of Northumberland, 1553. It includes a certificate of
musters of Gloucester and In-Shire for war against the Scots, 1513
GBR B2/1
1550/511595/96
Gloucester Chamberlain's Accounts: numerous references to musters in
Tudor times and to the equipment of soldiers. Includes the rising of the
Duke of Northumberland, 1552/53, an order from the Queen for 40 ablebodied men to serve in the war against France, 1557, details of soldiers sent
to Scotland and the Isle of Wight, 1559, the Northern Rising 1569/70 and
soldiers sent to the Earl of Essex, 1595/96.
GBR F4/3
1565-1632
Gloucester Common Council Minutes - includes many references to the
training and exercising of soldiers, to billeting and quartering, pay and
equipment.
GBR B3/1
1586/87-1619
Gloucester Lieutenancy Order & Letter Book: includes accounts of musters,
assessments, provision of arms and equipment in relation to the threat from
the Spanish Armada, 1588, and subsequent levies for service in Ireland,
Normandy and Brittany.
GBR H2/1
1618-1642
Gloucester Lieutenancy Order & Letter Book: muster rolls and assessments.
Includes levies for service in the Palatinate and raising volunteers for
service with the King of Sweden, 1631. Various references to the trained
bands and to billeting. Also to the Scots Rebellion, 1638-39 and to service in
Ireland, 1642.
GBR H2/2
1639-1661
Gloucester Lieutenancy Order & Letter Book: includes levying of men for the
Scots Wars
GBR H2/3
Anglo-Saxons & Danes, 1016
(1016)
Extract from Quarterly Magazine on a battle in 1016 between Anglo-Saxons
and Danes near the Four Shire Stone [near Moreton-in-Marsh]
D3471/932
Holland’s Rising, 1400
(1400)
Account of the rising of John Holland, Duke of Exeter, against King Henry
IV, culminating in a battle near Cirencester
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P65 IN 1/1
The Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485
(1469)
Copies of the letters written before the Battle of Nibley Green by William,
Lord Berkeley and Viscount Lisle
D225/F5
1842
Trevor Hastings, or the Battle of Tewkesbury by Major Michel
ROL E2
c.1950
Wars of the Roses - note on skirmish at Duntisbourne Abbots
D2210/8
1971, 1999
Tewkesbury & District Choral Society: records relating to the celebration of
the Battle of Tewkesbury [500th anniversary and later]: programmes, tape
recordings, cuttings and text
D8948/
2/4, 3/1
c.1985
Leaflet concerning the Battle of Tewkesbury, 1471
TBR E61
n.d.
Photographs of battle scenes in 1471 from the Ghent Mss.
Photocopy
1043/1-4
n.d.
Malvern Chase: an episode of the Wars of the Roses and the Battle of
Tewkesbury by W.S. Symonds
ROL P1
2003
Gloucestershire’s Forgotten Battle: Nibley Green, 1470 by P. Fleming & M.
Wood
ROL D5
2004
The Battle of Tewkesbury, 4th May 1471 by J. Davies
MI 62
The Northern Rebellion, 1537
1486-1648
Official Memoranda Book [the Gloucester “Red Book”] - many references to
musters, numbers and names of men raised, and to events such as the
Northern Rebellion, 1537
GBR B2/1
War against Scotland & France, 1543-46
1544
References to the capture of Boulogne
P65 IN 1/1
1544
Request by Sir William Musgrave for allowance for himself and troop of
“northern horsemen”, signed W. Essex
D2383/F12
French Wars of Religion, 1559-1579
c.1640
Manuscript note books containing an account of the Wars
D225/Z4
The Northern Rising, 1569
1550/511595/96
Gloucester Chamberlain's Accounts: numerous references to musters in
Tudor times and to the equipment of soldiers. Includes the Northern Rising
1569/70
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GBR F4/3
War with Spain, 1585-1604
This conflict is reflected in the Gloucester Borough Records [GBR], for which see the
detailed note at the beginning of this section. Other records include:
1588
List of contributors to aid against the Spanish Armada
D149/F1
1598
“An Apologie of the Earle of Essex ..” relating to a charge that he has sought
to involve England in continual wars, defending his various military and
naval expeditions
D7115
Vol.1/7
1886
Names of those subscribing to defence of this country at the time of the
Spanish Armada by T.C. Noble
ROL D5
1981
Gloucester and the Spanish Armada by J.W. Wyatt [Gloucestershire
Historical Studies, Vol. XII]
CMS 54/13
1986-88
Papers relating to the Whitecross [Lydney] school project Fire Over England
D5724/5
1988
Fire over England, The Armada Beacons by Frank Kitchen
MS 93
The Irish Rebellion, 1598-1603
1599
Order to muster soldiers at Stroud for Irish war
D149/M7/1
1601
Letter from Lord Chandos to the Privy Council advising that he had “levied
and impressed” 100 men and sent them towards the port of Bristol
D3552/1
The Thirty Years War, 1618-1648
1620
Letter from Arundell, Nottingham and Dorset concerning a letter from the
King of Bohemia
D1833/Z6
1627
The danger wherein the Kingdome now standeth; and the remedie thereof
by Sir Robert Cotton
D7115
Vol.1/13
1628
Lord Keeper’s speech describing the dangerous European situation
D7115
Vol.1/15-16
1628
Speaker’s reply asserting the need for England to restore her military honour
against the Hapsburg threat
D7115
Vol.1/17-19
1628
Proposition to the House of Commons from the King and his Council
concerning the equipping and provisioning of the navy and army
D7115
Vol.1/23
1628
Alarum at landing of Spaniards in Milford Haven
P18 IN 1/1
1631
Directions to Lord Mayor of London to appoint two companies of trained
bands and strong watches to prevent tumults; and to take into custody all
“able bodied vagrants and masterless men and deliver them to the Marquis
of Hamilton as soldiers for the King of Sweden”. Also, directions to levy
volunteers for the Swedish service.
D340a/X1
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The Bishops’ Wars, 1639-40
The decision to impose the English Prayer book upon the Scots provoked a riot in St. Giles’
Church, Edinburgh in 1637 and led to armed conflict on the borders in 1639-40. It forced
King Charles I to summon parliament (April-May 1640: the “Short” Parliament; November
1640: the “Long” Parliament) in order that he might obtain supplies to fight the Scots.
1638-41
Various documents illustrating the problems Charles had with the House of
Commons, including John Pym’s speech (item 50) and the Bill of Attainder
against Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford (item 60); and to the Scots
army in England
D7115
Vol.1/47-60
The English Civil Wars, 1642-46, 1648, 1650-51
The 17th century was a turbulent time in the history of Britain and Europe. It saw the 30
Years War (1618-48) draw the major powers into a devastating conflict centred upon
“Germany”. The life of people in the British Isles was disrupted by a series of wars: the
“Bishops Wars” involving England and Scotland (1639-40), the Rebellion in Ireland (1641)
and its aftermath, and the three Civil Wars (1642-46, 1648, and 1650-51). All of this had an
impact upon Gloucestershire, and the county played an important part, in particular, in the
Civil War of 1642-46. The Siege of Gloucester, 1643, marked a watershed in that conflict,
and the Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold, 1646, was effectively the final battle of the First Civil
War. In addition, there were a number of small battles, skirmishes and sieges in Forest, Vale
and Cotswolds. Many places were garrisoned and field armies marched through the
countryside, much to the chagrin of those who owned the land or otherwise sought to earn
an honest living. All of this is reflected in the local records.
Prior to the outbreak of war, Puritan influence had been growing in the county, especially in
Gloucester and the Stroud area. This, together with the unpopularity of ship money, the grant
of monopolies, and the enclosure of the Forest of Dean, contributed to the rise in opposition
to the government of King Charles I. Things came to a head when the Scots took up arms
against the government in 1639-40 following the riot in Edinburgh over the introduction of the
new prayer book. The king was forced to recall Parliament and make concessions. Finally,
the Irish rebellion fanned the flames of anti-catholic feeling in the autumn of 1641 and, as
tensions heightened, events moved towards war. Charles left London after the abortive
attempt to arrest the five members in January 1642. He tried, but failed, to secure the port
and arsenal of Hull. Parliament sought to gain control over the country’s militia forces; the
King to raise troops by Commission of Array. In August 1642, Charles gathered an army at
Nottingham and raised the Royal standard, marking the “official” start of the conflict.
Bristol tried to remain neutral as the war began but was soon compelled to accept a
parliamentary garrison. This city and port played a strategic role as the key to the west, and
its capture was a principal Royalist objective. Another target for the King was Cirencester,
which fell to Prince Rupert and Lord Hertford in February 1643 after a brief but fierce fight.
Meanwhile, Lord Herbert had, at his own expense, raised an army for the King in South
Wales. This force advanced through the Forest of Dean in February, brushing aside
parliamentary opposition at the Battle of Coleford. The small army entrenched itself at
Highnam to threaten Gloucester, but was soundly beaten in March through a combined
attack by Sir William Waller and Colonel Edward Massie. In July the royalists took Bristol,
after which the King ordered his forces to converge upon Gloucester.
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The siege of Gloucester marked a watershed in the conflict. The story is well documented
from the parliament side through the contemporary accounts of John Dorney, town clerk, and
John Corbett, chaplain to Colonel Edward Massie, the Governor. Following the relief of
Gloucester in September by the army of the Earl of Essex, Massie was able to carry the fight
to the enemy. The following years of strife in Gloucestershire are marked by a number of
skirmishes, sieges and battles, with both sides establishing garrisons to maintain their
position and threaten their opponents. On the royalist side, the garrisons established by Sir
John Wintour were a particular thorn in Massie's side. To reduce them he took the offensive
in May 1644 and his forces stormed Westbury, Littledean and Newnham. In June he
captured Tewkesbury and in August eased pressure from the Hereford side when he won a
victory at Redmarley, where the royalist commander, Colonel Nicholas Mynne, was slain.
Attempts by Wintour to fortify the Beachley peninsula were foiled when the Cavaliers were
twice routed by Massie's forces in the autumn of 1644.
There were major incursions into the Forest of Dean in April 1645 by forces under Prince
Rupert's command, but his defeat at Naseby in June was a major blow to the King, after
which the days of royalist power in Gloucestershire were very much numbered. Bristol fell to
the New Model Army on 11th September and Berkeley Castle on 23rd. On 21 March 1646,
the final battle of the First Civil War took place at Stow-on-the-Wold and King Charles' last
hope of raising a field army was dashed by the defeat of Lord Astley.
Records held at Gloucestershire Archives
The Office holds a large selection of contemporary tracts, many of which have been collated
as part of the Hyett Collection (D10637), while some are reproduced in Bibliotheca
Gloucestrensis, [Washbourn, 1825] which is available in the Record Office Library (ROL).
Among the original (Hyett Collection) tracts are:
No. 55
An Historical Relation of the Military Government of Gloucester
by John Corbet, 1645
No. 71
The Victorious Fortunate Proceedings of Sir William : As written
in a letter from Waller to Haslerig, 1643
No. 73
A True Relation of the Severall Passages which have happened
to our Army since it advanced towards Glocester (anon), 1643
No. 74
A Briefe and Exact Relation of the most Materiall and remarkable
Passages that Hap'ned in the Late Well-formed … Siege laid before the
City of Gloucester, by John Dorney, 1643
No. 75
A True and Exact Relation of the Marchings of the Two
regiments of the Trained Bands of the City of London, by Henry
Foster, 1643
No. 76
A True Relation of the Late Expedition by His Excellency Robert
the Earle of Essex for the relief of Gloucester (anon), 1643
The Record Office Library includes the Calendars of State Papers [Domestic] for this period.
The Austin catalogue of the Gloucestershire Collection has a section listing Civil War Tracts
and Papers [I/6].
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In terms of archives, there is much material of note in the Gloucester City Records, including
Common Council Minutes, 1632-1656 (GBR B3/2), Chamberlains' Account Books, 16361654 (GBR F4/5) and the Order & Letter Book, 1639-1661 (GBR H2/3). The Catalogue
includes detailed subject indexes to these volumes under headings such as Civil War &
Commonwealth and Military.
One important collection of papers is the Smyth/Cowper documents that were assembled in
two volumes by Lord Crewe in 1888 (D7115) and purchased in 1994. They feature a great
range of material, including the problems with Parliament in the 1620s, complaints about the
activities of saltpetremen and the clashes with parliament in 1640 against the background of
the Scots War. Further papers reflect the drift to War in 1641-42. The War itself is only
documented in a few of the papers, these including reference to the garrison of Berkeley
Castle in 1643.
Another small volume of papers (D115), purchased in 1939, contains a number of interesting
documents relating to the siege of Gloucester, 1643. They include proclamations by King
Charles I, orders and warrants – some “given at Matson”, which he had made his
headquarters at that time.
Under reference D9125, item 3342, transferred from the Library’s Gloucestershire Collection,
comprises extracts from various authors, probably compiled by Archdeacon Furney, chiefly
relating to Colonel Massie and Bishop Hooper. Also transferred to the Record Office were
the Smyth of Nibley papers (D8887/6964), of John Smyth the Elder (d. 1641) and John
Smyth the Younger (d. 1692), both stewards to the Earl of Berkeley. Item numbers 16524 to
16539 in the Biographical note section of Austin’s Catalogue details 16 volumes, of which
Vol. 5 includes the personal papers of John Smyth the Younger relating to compounding
(Item 16528).
The Gloucestershire Collection itself can be consulted for Civil War sources [see the
catalogue on LOCATE]. It also includes copies of the Journals of the House of Commons,
1642-1667 (6 volumes), which include some references to developments in Gloucestershire.
Researchers will also find references to the Civil War in parish registers, reflecting local
garrisons or those who perished from wounds following a nearby skirmish. The very gaps in
parish registers for the 1640s also reflect the impact of the Wars and the dislocation that it
brought to local administration.
Documents held At Gloucestershire Archives
1627-29
Various speeches, petitions and resolutions “ between the King and House
of Commons” reflecting the need for supplies to meet the current
emergency and touching upon grievances such as forced billeting and
unlawful means of raising revenue. Includes the Petition of Right, 1628
D7115
Vol.1/13-35
1630-31
Complaints against the activities of saltpetremen; proceedings in Parliament
relating to saltpetre and the gunpowder patent
D7115
Vol.1/36-38,
58
1632-56
Gloucester City Council Minutes: include preparations for defence of the
city, losses sustained, payments made to governors (Colonel Sir Edward
Massie, Colonel Thomas Morgan and Sir William Constable), and measures
for maintenance of the garrison and raising of Colonel Henry Stephens [City]
Regiment
GBR B3/2
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(1636)
Writ from Charles I to the High Sheriffs of Gloucester to provide a ship and
men
TRS 147
1636
Signed letter from the Privy Council concerning Ship Money and copy letter
concerning musters
D340a/X2
1636
Bond to provide and furnish a ship of 550 tons, as Gloucestershire’s
contribution
D340a/X4
1636-63
Gloucester City Chamberlain’s Accounts: include entries relating to
preparations for defence, fortification, the City Trained Bands and on the
destruction occasioned by the Siege. Also on Colonel Massie and the
Governor’s House, on Oliver Cromwell passing through Gloucester, 1647,
raising levies for Ireland, 1650-51 and on later measures for fortification,
1659-60.
GBR F4/5-6
(1638)
Distribution of ship money throughout counties, including Gloucestershire
(1638)
Ship Money assessment (figures for whole counties only)
Photocopy
17
D5555/1/1
1638-41
Various documents illustrating the problems Charles had with the House of
Commons, including John Pym’s speech (item 50) and the Bill of Attainder
against Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford (item 60)
D7115
Vol.1/47-60
1638-55
Documents relating to Ship Money and proceedings of John Smyth the
Younger with the Committee for Sequestrations, Committee for
Compounding and Committee for the Advancement of Money
D8887/13623
1639
Names of those in Avening that have taken the New Engagement
P29 IN 1/1
(c1639)
Contemporary copy of a warrant to raise cavalry in Scotland
Photocopy
1381
1639-61
Gloucester Order & Letter Book: include provision for musters and raising
levies 1640, maintenance of garrison, 1643, impressments to reinforce
Bristol garrison 1645-46, raising levies for Irish service, 1651, measures
taken for security of the city due to Scots invasion, copy of Patent creating
Oliver Cromwell High Steward, 1651/52 and certificate of losses sustained
in the Siege, (1646) – 1656.
GBR H2/3
1640
Appointment of the Captain-General of the Royal forces this side of the
River Trent
D1086/X27
(1640)
Letter from John Shepherd concerning the collection of ship money in
Gloucestershire
Photocopy
1641
Order and letter to John Smyth the Younger relating to the raising of a troop
of dragoons to garrison Cirencester
D7115
Vol.1/73-74
1641
Letter from the Gloucestershire justices to solicit signatures to a petition
concerning the defence of the county
D7115
Vol.1/75
1641-43
Bailiff's accounts, Chipping Sodbury, including payments to the Royal forces
at the Siege of Gloucester
D2071/A3
1641-45
Burial of many soldiers [Cirencester]
P86/1 IN 1/2
1641-48
Documents relating to the war and events leading up to it in
Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Essex, Suffolk and elsewhere
D7115
Vol. I/73-75,
Vol. II/7, 13,
36-89
1641-48
Assessments for Parliamentary taxation on Hartpury to maintain the army
D640/L6
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415/3
1641-49
Papers illustrative of management of the Forest of Dean during the Civil
War and Commonwealth
D3921/I/35
1642
Letter concerning a petition to be presented to Parliament
D2510/16
1642
Death of an anti-puritan [Elmstone Hardwick]
P137 IN 1/2
1642
Letter to Captain Thomas Veale, commanding the garrison of Berkeley
Castle, from Lord Chandos calling a meeting at Cirencester
D7115
Vol.II/36
1642
Letter to John Smyth the Younger informing him of disturbances in Essex
and Suffolk, and of attempts by parliamentarians to obtain plate and money
D7115
Vol.II/37
1642
Warrant to petty constables of North Nibley to summon the parish’s
contingent for the trained bands to appear near Chipping Sodbury
D7115
Vol.II/38
1642
Copy agreement of the representatives of the Yorkshire gentry, including Sir
Thomas Fairfax, that all armed forces in the county be disbanded and the
Commission of Array and Parliamentary (Militia) ordinances be suspended.
D7115
Vol.II/42
1642
Copy letter from the Earl of Essex announcing his “victory” at Edgehill
D7115
Vol.II/47
(1642-43)
Orders to attack Cirencester
TRS 130
(1642-46)
Papers concerning the Civil War including undertaking of Samuel Rodes to
go from Liverpool to Manchester as a spy
D340b/X1
1642-48
Appointment of "Parish Register", 1653 and other references to the war,
1642-58,
Order to Sir James Hamilton to leave Tewkesbury and proceed with his
dragoons to Thornbury
P273 IN 1/1
1643
Draft of letter to Sir Francis Walker, Iron Master, concerning the supply of
round iron shot and order to provide artillery for the defence of Bristol
D115/2, 15
1643
Letters Patent appointing Sir John Wintour as Governor of Lydney House
with permission to garrison and fortify it
D421/A1/5
1643
Command to Sir William Vavasour to march his forces to the siege of
Gloucester
D115/3
1643
Command to William Viscount Grandison to march his regiment to quarter
in Tewkesbury
D115/5
1643
Proclamations to prevent those bringing victuals to the camp at Gloucester
from being robbed
D115/7, 8, 10
1643
Order to Sir Baynham Throckmorton to issue warrants to send 40 miners to
the Siege of Gloucester
D115/9
1643
Copy of the Solemn League and Covenant
D149/
F13 ff86-111
1643
Protection for John Terrett of Hartpury, yeoman, under sign manual of
Charles I
D640/F4
1643
Safe conduct for Samuel Webb, clothier of Lyppiatt, from Prince Rupert and
Prince Maurice
D745/X4
(1643)
Safe conduct for Samuel Webb of Stroud, clothier
CG 47
1643
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D9125/11284
(1643)
Prince Rupert's orders for the taking of Gloucester
Photocopy
414
(1643)
An account of the Siege of Cirencester written by Prince Rupert's chaplain
(included in the “Parish Book” c.1680-1780)
P86/1 IN 6/3
1643
Warrant to collect a rate for the maintenance of the royalist garrison at
Bristol
D7115/
Vol. II /55
1643
Warrant to Ralph Lord Hopton for supply of 100 pair pistols to be delivered
to Sir John Mennes
D115/11
1643
Letter to the Sheriff of Somerset to muster men to place under the
command of Colonel Horatio Carey
D115/12
1643
Order from Prince Rupert to forbid billeting of soldiers and payments to any
body other than the garrison of Bristol
D7115/
Vol. II /57
1643
Letters to John Smyth the Younger from Captain George Maxwell
(commanding the garrison of Berkeley Castle) concerning payment and
supplies
D7115/
Vol. II /58-59
1643
Documents concerning the Siege of Gloucester in 1643
D115/1-15
1643
Death of one of the Earl of Essex's pressed soldiers, returning from
Gloucester
P58 IN 1/1
1643
Burial of a woman “which came with the Lanquishire soldiers” [Shurdington]
P292 IN 1/1
1643
Reference to the Rev. James' imprisonment by Parliamentary troops [Awre]
P30 IN 1/1
1643
Contemporary printed account of the Battle of Malmesbury
D1571/Q1
1643
Letter and warrant (signed by Edward Stephens and John Codrington) for
Richard Yate or his lieutenant to release William Thorpe from Berkeley
Castle
D8887/
6999-7000
1643
Order to bring beds and bedding into Berkeley Castle for His Majesty’s
service
D8887/7001
(1643)
Transcript of a tract A True Relation of the Siege before the City of Gloster
by His Majesties Forces, 1891
D6/F134
(1643)
Order from Charles I to the Mayor of Tewkesbury to send spades, mattocks
and shovels to aid in the siege of Gloucester
K748/5
(1643)
Safe conduct for Thos. Lloyds of Whitminster, gent. Signed by Prince
Rupert
CG 46
(1643)
Copy letter referring to Slimbridge rectory in the war, 1643
PA 298/3
(1643)
Proposals to raise military forces in Gloucester
TRS 146
(1643)
Historical notes on the Siege of Gloucester
D690/IV/1-4
(1643)
Photograph of letter from Charles I to Prince Rupert, 1643 concerning
supplies of cloth from the Stroud area for the troops
CI/14
(1643)
“The Siege of Gloucester 1643” – postcard
MI 43
(1643)
Copy of account of the suffering of rector N. Richardson [of Slimbridge] in
the war, in facsimile of letter, 1705, by W. Craddock
P298 IN 4/4
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(1643)
18th century copy of a letter from Charles I at Sudeley Castle thanking the
men of Cornwall for their services
D2218/3/14
(c.1643)
Transcript of a list of Gloucester inhabitants loyal to the King
GMS 276
1643-44
Burial of Roger Williams, slain in a skirmish, 1643; burials of Glos. and
Slimbridge garrison soldiers drowned in the River Severn, 1644 [Arlingham]
P18 IN 1/2
1643-44
Letters patent appointing Sir John Wintour as Governor of Lydney House to
enrol troops for the siege of Gloucester, 1643, and as commander in chief
of the Royal forces in Gloucestershire beyond the River Severn, 1644
D421/A1/6
1643-46
Ordinances of Parliament for the sequestration of papists' estates
D149/X1
1643-54
Accounts relating to the sequestration of the Colchester estate
D36/A2
1644
Order against harbouring rebels
D115/1
1644
Letters Patent appointing Sir John Wyntour and others to impress and enrol
troops for the siege of Gloucester and to levy contributions in the county
D421/A1/8
1644
Letters Patent appointing Sir John Wyntour as Commander beyond the
River Severn
D421/A1/8
1644
Copy certificate that Morgan Hicks had not borne arms in any militia
company
D9125/916
1644
Draft letter from John Smyth the Younger to Sir Edward Hyde assuring him
of Lord Berkeley’s loyalty to the King
D7115
Vol. II /61
1644
Appeal to the Earl of Essex to treat for peace from members of Parliament
summoned to Oxford
D7115
Vol. II /62
1644
Pass from Colonel Edward Massie to John Smyth the Younger to allow him
to go from Bristol to Massie’s headquarters in Gloucester
D7115
Vol. II /65
1644
The King’s warrant to the Earl of Glamorgan to treat with the Confederate
Irish Catholics, with certified copy of the articles agreed
D7115
Vol. II /66, 68
1644
Photocopies of documents concerning Tewkesbury in the war
D5555/4/3
1644
Ejection and replacement of Thomas Potter, incumbent of Nympsfield
D7699
1644
Burials of Royalist soldiers [Ampney Crucis]
P15 IN 1/1
1644
Burials of soldiers killed at Berkeley
P298 IN 1/1
(1644)
Copy letter from Charles I at Oxford to John Stubbes at Charlton Kings
appealing for a loan against the Scottish invasion in 1644
D855/M68
1644-45
Parliamentary passes
D1833/Z6
1644-45
Papers relating to the sequestration of William Guise of Elmore, 1644-45,
and the hearing before the Committee for Gloucestershire and
Herefordshire appointed by the Committee of the Lords and Commons for
compounding with delinquents, set up by an ordinance of the
Commonwealth Parliament
D128/2-21
1644-71
Papers relating to assessments made by the Committee for Compounding
concerning John Smyth the Younger
D8887/13624
1645
Order from Colonel Massie giving John Smyth safe conduct between Bristol
and Nibley
D9125/917
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1645
Threat from Prince Rupert's Royalist forces
D3471/867
1645
Reference to the collection of taxes for the British Army in Ireland, to be paid
at Quedgeley
D5555/1/2
c.1645
Manuscript treatise on the contemporary political situation
D1086/F69
(1645)
Letter concerning military activity in Wales and the West Country
TRS 167
(1645)
Letter concerning the military at Exeter, Plymouth and elsewhere in the
West Country
TRS 168
(1645)
Letter from Thomas Daunt to his father referring to payment of taxes for the
British army in Ireland
D5555/1/2
1645-46
Papers relating to measures taken against Sir Richard Ducie by Parliament
for his alleged “malignancy” and to sequestration
D340a/
C1/7-11 &
F12
1645-46
Letter from King Charles I to Prince Rupert instructing him to reduce
Abingdon
D7348/3
c.1645-46
Names of soldiers who ran away from Sir Charles Berkeley’s company
D7115
Vol. II /70
1645-47
Verses referring to the war in the parish register [Hartpury]
P165 IN 1/1
1645-47
Papers relating to the granting of cordwood from the Forest of Dean to
Commonwealth soldiers
D3921/I/27
1645-50
Daunt family letters giving news of the war and contemporary events
D979A/
F3/1-9
c.1645-1664
Documents relating to Sir Baynham Throckmorton. Includes copy of letter to
Lord Henry Percy about arresting miners, c.1645; appointment as captain of
militiamen, 1664
D3921/I/56
1646
Burials of Parliamentary soldiers [Bourton-on-the-Hill]
P54 IN 1/1
1646
Names of those in Avening that have taken the National Covenant
P29 IN 1/1
1646
Warrant to constables of the hundred of Berkeley to collect a month’s pay
for disbanding the forces in Gloucestershire
D8887/6983
1646
Papers relating to the King’s arrival at Newark to negotiate with the Scots
including his reply to proposals from both parliaments
D7115
Vol. II/71, 73,
74
1646
Draft letter from John Smyth the Younger to Captain Thomas White at
Wotton referring to his efforts to provide powder for the garrison ([?of
Berkeley Castle]
D7115
Vol. II/75
1647-49
Money paid for quartering a garrison at Sudeley. Also concerning cavalry
standards preserved in the Yate chapel, Bromsberrow Church
D1727/8-10
1646-53
Order and other papers concerning the Committee for Compounding for
Lincolnshire
D36/F6
1647-54
References in letters to the political situation in 1647, the impeachment of
the Seven Lords and other events leading up to the Civil War
D1637/C1
1648
Death of a soldier belonging to Sir Wm. Constable, a colonel under Fairfax
P58 IN 1/1
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1648
Letter from Richard Colchester to Elizabeth Colchester threatening to obtain
sequestration of her lands
D36/F4/18
1649
Petition by the late Bishop of Gloucester, Godfrey Goodman for relief,
having been reduced to poverty by the plundering of soldiers
GBR B9/2
1649
Parish relief given to a cannonier injured near Chedworth, and soldiers
quartered at Coln St. Dennis
P77 CW 2/1
1649
Papers concerning John Harley, Sheriff of County palatine of Lancaster,
taken captive
D340b/X2
1649-53
Chamberlayne of Maugersbury - sequestration papers
D621/E2
1640s/50s
Personal papers of John Smyth the Younger relating to compounding
D8887/6964
c.1650
Reference to soldiers at Eastington
D149/
F13, F327
(c.1650)
Reference to a document “being hid underground in ye civill wars”
D2078
Box 24/8
1650
Letter concerning men taken at sea and carried to Jersey
D1022/3
1650-52
Payments for castle money and for maimed soldiers [Tetbury]
P328/1
CW 2/14
(1651)
Reprint of an act for the sale of several lands and estates forfeited to the
Commonwealth for treason
D3921/V/53
1652
Order for the sale of the Earl of Newcastle's estate
D5400/1/1
1652
Letter from the Irish Commissioners, Dublin, to the Council of State
concerning an attack upon the garrison in the Isles of Arran
D7348/41
1653
Reference in Quenington parish register to George Albert, rector in the
Royalist army [Quenington]
P261 IN 1/1
1654
Election of Daniel Essex as “Parish Register” for Avening
P29 IN 1/1
(1654)
Copy of a report concerning the difficulty of enforcing the 1652 Act
prohibiting the planting of English tobacco
D5555/4/7
(1657, nd)
Transcripts concerning Gloucestershire estates forfeited by royalists in the
Interregnum
CMS 218
(1660)
Declaration of Allegiance from the county of Gloucester to King
Charles II
D5555/4/9
1660-c.1662
Papers concerning the Forest of Dean and the attitude of the inhabitants
towards Sir John Wintour, including draft petition to terminate his lease
D2026/X20
1663
Answer of John Smyth the Younger to a bill preferred against him in the
Exchequer – denied holding office under the “usurped powers” and asserts
loyalty to Charles I and Charles II
D8887/13625
1665-1722
Deed concerning the site of a house and barn, Watering Street, destroyed in
the war, Gloucester
D4161
(1657-60)
Photostats of accounts of the Chief Administrators of the Forest
D3921/I/27
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1667
Reference in a deed to houses pulled down in Cirencester “in the tyme of
the late Warr”
D8/T3
1659
Papers concerning abortive Royalist uprising
D225/F12
1659
Letters and blank commissions
D225/F13
1662
Certificate that William Vizier served King Charles I “in the late warre as an
officer”
D9125/918
1667
Appointment of attorney for distributing £60,000 to loyal and indigent officers
D1844/X1
1689-70
References to the “late Civil wars” amongst the papers of Bishop William
Lloyd senior
D3549/2/4/13
Late 17th
century
Copy depositions about the enclosure of Little Rowney Green during the
Civil War [papers of Bishop William Lloyd senior]
D3549/2/4/11
1702
Correspondence of John Sharp, Archbishop of York, and the Earl of
Clarendon about the first earl’s History of the Great Rebellion
D3549/
6/1/C21
1748
Accounts for the repair of Berkeley church tower, destroyed during the war
Q/SR 1748
1786
Drawing of Phyllis Court, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire during the war
(copy)
D1245/FF76
(1796)
Hall & Pinnell’s Plan of Gloucester with defences superimposed
PC 1769
1861-1929
Mr R L Staynor’s research file on the Civil War banners in Bromsberrow
Church. Include photographs, 1861, Journal of Army Historical research,
1923, The Cavalry Journal, 1923
D7547/5/5
(1868)
Copy of letter to the Gloucester Journal on the discovery of the skeletons at
Barber’s Bridge, Rudford
D7979/4/5
1871
Skeletons discovered at Barber's Bridge by Captain (W.E.) Price
GBR
L6/29/C6
1878
The Siege of Gloucester, illustrated by an enlarged copy of Speed's plan, by
W.H. Greene
D1608
1890
The Siege of Gloucester, “A Rare Civil War Tract” by F.A. Hyett
D1608
1891
Gloucester and Her Governor during the Great Civil War by F.A. Hyett
D1608
19th century
“Descent from Sir Bevil Granville”: Notes on the descent of the MurrayBrowne family from the Cornish Royalist commander Sir Bevill Grenvile,
who was killed at the Battle of Lansdowne, 1643
D6919/1/2
Late 19th
century
Late 19th
century
Notes on incidents in the Stow-on-the-Wold neighbourhood
D6755/1/3/7
Photograph of illustration entitled “Roundheads leaving London for the
West”
D7916
Page 38
(1900) - 1954
Proposed memorial in Rudford church to Royalist soldiers buried after the
Battle of Barber's Bridge
GDR
A17/15/2
1902
Notes on a skirmish at Barber's Bridge, Rudford in Highnam memoranda
D2586
1909, 1934
Copy pedigree of Wintour of Lydney, 1056-1822 (with additions, 1934)
D2633/6
c.1910
Postcard showing Matson House
D2633/6
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1936
Sale catalogue of tracts and newsletters concerning Charles I, the Civil War,
the Commonwealth, and Charles II
CG 10
(1930s)
Photograph of the ruins of Campden House, destroyed during the war
GPS 81/115
1932
Photograph of bullet marks made by Roundheads on the Belfry Tower of
Sudeley Castle
D2218/3/57
c.1950
Note on cannon balls found at Littledean and St Briavels
D2210/10,18
1953
Chart showing route taken by Charles II after his defeat at the Battle of
Worcester, 1651
D968/1
1959
Lecture notes on the war near Tewkesbury and Ashchurch
D5555/4/4
1963
Correspondence of J M C Lysons concerning Thomas Lysons, Mayor of
Worcester in 1651, who was involved in an unsuccessful bid to proclaim
Charles II as King prior to the Battle of Worcester, 1651
D8460/6/1
1967
Photograph of the Cromwell Stone, Haresfield Hill, with newscutting
GPS 163/3
1974
Souvenir programme of Sealed Knot re-enactment of the siege of
Gloucester, 1643.
K989/2
1986-88
Papers relating to the Whitecross [Lydney] school project on The Wyntours
of the White Cross
D5724/4
n.d.
Notes on a cannon ball found at Littledean included in notes on history of
the church, 1890-1981
P110/MI/1
n.d.
Reference to an attack on a traveller by a “partie of the Kings horse” and his
subsequent imprisonment
D340a/Z7
n.d.
Copy of account of visit by Colonel Massie to Captain Matthews, garrisoned
at Slimbridge, in facsimile of letter, 1713, by W. Cradock
Notes on General Massie
P298 IN 4/4
n.d.
Notes on Gloucestershire history, mainly concerning the Civil War,
especially the part of the clergy in the war
D67/Z66
n.d.
Pedigree of Wintour of Lydney
D9484
n.d.
Joan Johnson’s notes, cuttings and correspondence about the Civil War in
Gloucestershire
D8557
(acc 10281)
n.d.
Notes on 17th century books and documents relating to Bledington by Miss
M K Ashby
D5307/18
n.d.
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PE 33
Record Office Library, pamphlets and other published material
1825
Bibliotheca Gloucestrensis ed. John Washbourn
ROL E2
1878
The true story of the siege of Gloucester… compiled by W.H. Greene
GMS 48
1887
Dame Alicia Chamberlayne of Ravensholme, Gloucestershire. Memories of
Troublous Times by Emma Marshall (fiction)
ROL N2/CHA
1888
The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England begun in the year
1641 by Edward, Earl of Clarendon
ROL G2, G4
1906
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625-1660 ed.
Samuel Rawson Gardiner
ROL D2
1921
“Gloucester. 1642-1645, and Massey. Gloucester and her Governor during
the Great Civil War” by F.A. Hyett [Trans. BGAS XLIII]
ROL F4
1925
Gloucestershire tracts: Painswick House collection, 1645-1925. Vols. I-IV by
F.A. Hyett
ROL F4
c.1930
Extract from Anon. Forfeited Estates of an Act for the sale of several lands
and estates forfeited to the Commonwealth for treason, 1651. Includes Sir
John Wintour
D3921/V/53
1938
The Early Stuarts, 1603-1660 by Godfrey Davies
ROL D1
1958
The Great Rebellion by C.V. Wedgewood
ROL D2
1960
Royalist and Roundhead in Gloucestershire 1640-1660 – booklet produced
to accompany an exhibition by Gloucestershire Record Office and City
Library
GMS 64
1966
The Great Rebellion, 1642-1660 by Ivan Roots
ROL D2
1966
Background to the English Civil War by F.W. Jessup
ROL D3
1967
The Civil War ed. Peter Young
ROL D2
1967
The Civil War by Richard Atkins and John Gwyn
ROL D3
1968
Tape recording of Hilary Acman of Cirencester singing a song about Oliver
Cromwell
D6112
[tape 46]
1974
The siege of Gloucester, 1643 by Dorothy Kendall Pearson
GMS 249
1976
The Cotswolds in the Civil War by R.W. Jennings
MI 29
1978
Studies in Seventeenth Century West Midlands History by Philip Styles
ROL E2
1979
The Civil War and Interregnum: sources for local historians by G.E. Aylmer
ROL H17
1988
'The Wynter family, ed. Bryan Rendell
ROL F4
1988
Photographs of members of the Sealed Knot Society
D5724/5/1
1992
Gloucester and the Civil War by Malcolm Atkin and Wayne Laughlin
ROL F4
1992
Stow-on-the-Wold 1646. Campaign, Commanders and Battle by Ron Field
PA 317/7
1993
The Storming of Cirencester in 1643 an episode in the Civil War by John
Miles Paddock
PA 86/47
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1993
The siege of Gloucester, 1643 by Peter Bloomfield (exhibition booklet)
GMS 248
1993
In the Time of that Unhappie war… by J. Turtle (schools pack)
CMS 178
1998
Parish communities and religious conflict in the vale of Gloucester, 15901690 by Daniel C. Beaver
ROL E3
n.d. [post1995]
n.d.
Tewkesbury in the Civil War. A help or a hindrance? by Alexander Cole
PA 329/80
“The English Civil War and English Society” by Ian Roy [copy from War and
Society: a Yearbook of Military History, ed. Brian Bond and Ian Roy
MI 27
n.d.
A Civil War Trail by Russell Howes [Stroud District]
MI 57
n.d.
Conway Dighton’s historical notes on the Civil War
D23a/15
n.d.
Copy letter from Rev’d Emmanuel Bourn concerning the Civil War in
Derbyshire
D23a/30
Records held elsewhere
EL 611
Papers concerning the surrender of Hereford to Parliamentary forces
1643
EL 140
Certificate of services rendered and costs incurred by Richard Aylworth of
Aylworth, Naunton as captain of a trained band
1646
O File:
Bodleian
Library
MS Rawl 395: correspondence of Henry Lord Percy, 1643-44; MS Tanner
51, 62: correspondence, Wm. Lenthall in letters from Thomas Pury, 1659
and Massey, 1643
1643-59
EL 335
“The train bands marching from London to relieve Gloucester, 1643”,
drawing by C.W. Cope; “Siege of Gloucester, 1643”, oil painting by Robert
Dowling
1643
EL 145
Pamphlets mainly relating to the war in Worcestershire and the Midland
counties
1641-1727
EL 443
Letters to William Lenthall
1643-46, 59
Records held in the Gloucestershire Collection
For details, see Roland Austin’s Catalogue of the Gloucestershire collection, 1928. Numbers
3317 to 3340 [“The Siege and Civil War”] comprise various printed tracts, letters and papers,
including a large amount of material on the Siege of Gloucester, 1643. Numbers 5448 to
5456 [“The History of Bristol: The Siege”] relate to the sieges of 1643 and 1645. Under
“Cirencester: Civil War Tracts”, numbers 7681 to 7692 include letters and pamphlets on the
town’s involvement in the War, notably the storming of 1643. The Biography section of the
Catalogue features significant Civil War material in numbers 13229 to 13260, relating to the
role played by Colonel Sir Edward Massie [Governor of Gloucester 1643-45].
Records held by The National Archives
Prime sources for the Wars are the records of the Sequestration Committee and the State
Papers. The Army Lists of the Roundheads and Cavaliers by Edward Peacock (1863), is
available only at the National Archives. Other sources include various warrants, accounts
and muster rolls relating to the payment of soldiers, as well as petitions for arrears of pay,
debentures certifying how much pay individual soldiers were owed; and Exchequer
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depositions, 1650s-70s concerning the financial effects of quartering soldiers in local
communities. The National Archives web site leaflet on the Civil War gives the names of
useful published lists of soldiers and officers.
Records held at Stow-on-the Wold Library
The English Civil War collection consists of more than 400 books and illustrations donated to
the people of Stow-on-the Wold in 1936. The collection is for reference only and can be
consulted during library opening hours. A complete list is available from the Library on
payment of a small charge [telephone 01451 830352]; alternatively, consult the following lists
here:
1931
Collection of books, documents, paintings and armour at St. Edward's Hall,
Stow on the Wold (catalogue)
D4084
Box 60/5
The Monmouth Rebellion, 1685
James, Duke of Monmouth, the illegitimate son of King Charles II by Lucy Walters, landed at
Lyme Regis in June 1685 hoping that Protestant Englishmen would rise in his support to
overthrow his Roman Catholic uncle King James II. He gained considerable support in the
West Country but was defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor, captured and executed.
1685
An account of what passed at the Execution of the late Duke of Monmouth,
pamphlet, 1685
D371
c.1685
Thanksgiving for the suppression of the Monmouth rebellion
P76 MI 5/7
1685
Celebration of the Duke of Monmouth's defeat [Mickleton]
P216
CH 1/6
1685-86
Letters with references to James II's visit to Badminton, Bristol and
Bridgewater after the rebellion, 1686, and to military action in Europe
D1799/C8
n.d.
Letter concerning the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion of 1685 (uncatalogued)
D589
Box 6
The Glorious Revolution, 1688
In June 1688 Archbishop Sancroft and six of his fellow bishops were acquitted at the end of
their trial on charges of seditious libel. Before this trial was over a son (James, the “Old
Pretender”) was born to James II and Mary of Modena. Seven leading noblemen then sent
an invitation to William of Orange (husband to Mary, the Protestant daughter of James II by
his first wife, Anne Hyde) to enter the country in support of a free Parliament. William landed
in Torbay in November 1688 and seeing his support fall away, James’s nerve failed him and
he fled the country.
1688
Papers of William Lloyd-Baker senior, Bishop of St. Asaph (one of the seven
Bishops whom King James II sent to the tower accused of seditious libel) –
see catalogue for details
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D3549/2
War of the League of Augsburg, 1689-1697
1689-1713
Forms of prayer and thanksgiving issued before and during war
P166 IN 4/2
n.d.
Grand Alliance: note of a case of alleged inaction by a militia officer in 1690
when the French fleet burnt houses at Teignmouth, Devon
D566/Z4
1694-96
Commissions, orders and letters to Admiral George Rooke as C. in C. in the
Mediterranean
D1833/X1-2
1695-96
Correspondence of William Lloyd and the Marquis of Normanby concerning
Captain Wickham, “taken prisoner”
D3549/
6/1/K4
1697
Copy of the Treaty of Ryswick
D3549/2/4/17
1697-98
Grand Alliance: accounts for the celebration of the Peace of Ryswyk and the
return of William III
D566/B2/1
War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1713
1685-1714
Diplomatic papers of William Blathwayt as Secretary at War and personal
secretary to King William III. Includes accounts of subsidies paid to allies,
1700
D2663/F2
1700-03
Order book of Admiral Rooke as C in C of the Fleet. Includes lists of ships,
their captains, numbers of crew and guns; order to take the Spanish ”flota”
returning from the West Indies, 1701
D1833/X3
1701-02
Letter book of Admiral Rooke on the expedition to Cadiz
D1833/X4
1702
Letters Patent appointing William Blathwayt as Secretary at War
D2659/118
1703
Request for Archbishop's blessing before the attack on the Duke of Savoy
D3549/
6/1/H17
1703
Instructions for Christopher Codrington as Captain General & Governor of
the Leeward Islands for action against the French
D1610/C1a
1703-04
Letters concerning the progress of the war
D3549/2/2/5
1703-04
Correspondence of William Lloyd and Samuel Noyes [chaplain of Lord
Orkney’s regiment] with reports on the “continental wars” and reference to
“the march to Maastricht”
D3549/6/1/N
25
1703-04
Covering letter accompanying report of army action in Flanders
D3549/
6/1/P2
1703-07
Reference in register of military successes under the Duke of Marlborough
P229 IN 1/1
1703-13
Printed forms of prayer, including mention of the Duke of Marlborough in
1708 [Coln Rogers]
P95 CW 4/1
1704
Letter giving news of the Battle of Blenheim
D1844/C10
1704
Letters (in French) from Colonel De Schmettau on military operations
including the numbers killed and wounded at the Battle of Schellenberg, 2
July 1704, and the order of battle of the Duke of Marlborough’s army, July
1704
D3549/2/2/5
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1704-07
Letters concerning naval matters to Thomas Reynolds from Admiral Sir
George Byng, Lady Byng and Captain Samuel Vincent RN. Includes
reference to prizes taken, the Siege of Alicante and naval abuses
D340a/C27
1705-08
Letters referring to the war
D1799/C195
1707
Lord Galway’s account of the Battle of Almanza
D3549/2/4/17
1712-13
Letter referring to the war
D153/5
1712
Brief account of celebrations for the proposed peace, with copy of The
Evening Post (June 5-7, 1712)
D255/Z16
c.1720
Poem on the Siege of Gibraltar, and list of provision prices
D1815
Box 20/4
Early 18th
century
1826
Engravings of various naval battles
D1833/F13
Letter to the Morning Herald giving an account of the expedition against
Cadiz and Vigo in 1702
D1833/F4/7
The Jacobite Risings
The abortive attempts to restore the Stuarts to the throne in the person of James Edward
Stuart [the Old Pretender], son of King James II, are known to history as “the 15” and “the
45”. The first saw a rising in the Highlands and conflict in Scotland and the north of England,
1715-19. The second was initiated by the landing in Scotland of Prince Charles Edward
Stuart [the Young Pretender] in 1745, ending with his total defeat at the Battle of Culloden,
1646. Records relating to the ‘15 and ‘45 held by Gloucestershire Archives are noted below.
Major sources in The National Archives are the State Papers [Domestic], including both
military and political correspondence, War Office records concerning the military and naval
campaigns (including marching orders and out-letters), and trial records. The Scottish
Record Office holds forfeiture records dating from the establishment of the Forfeiture Estates
Commission.
The Jacobite Rising of 1715
1701
Report on the death of King James II and Louis XIV’s acknowledgement of
James, the “Old Pretender”, as King of England
D1799/X3
1715
Draft sermon giving thanks for the suppression “of this late unnatural
rebellion” (the Jacobite Rising of 1715)
D2078
Box 7/30
1715
Appointment of Thomas Locke as Ensign, Green Regiment of Militia Foot
D4348
1715
Appointment of Nathan Izod of Westington as Lieutenant of the Green
Regiment of Militia Foot
D5042/X9
1715
Assessment for the provision of 4 foot soldiers and horse [Stinchcombe]
P312 CO 2
1715
Return of annual valuation of estates in Charlton tithing chargeable with
finding horse and foot soldiers in militia [Tetbury St. Mary]
P328a
CO 2/1
1715
Letters from Lewis Moreton, describing the campaigns against the Old
Pretender
D340a/C24a
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1728
Questions to be asked of the Duke of Ripperda about the support of the
Emperor and Spain for the Pretender and his association with the Duke of
Wharton
D1022/10
1729
Letter from Duke of Wharton giving reasons for following “King James III”
(the Old Pretender)
D621/F1
War of the Austrian Succession, 1739-1748
1739
Proclamation of war [used as a bundle wrapper]
D149/F128
1741
Letters from Lewis Moreton, describing the action at Cartagena
D340a/C24a
1743
Eye witness account of the Battle of Dettingen, June 1743, by Lieutenant
Colonel J H G Murray Browne: the last battle in which a King Of England
[George II] took the field in person. Reprinted from Proceedings of the Royal
Academy Institution, Vol.18, no.3, but based upon papers preserved at
Hardwicke Court
D3549/35/3/3
1743
An account of the Battle of Dettingen by a French officer
D3549/13/3/6
1744
Account of money laid out for Major General Reade’s recruits at Gibraltar
[transcript of D2026/X38]
D340a/C24a
1744-46
Papers concerning the transit of a draft of recruits from England to Gibraltar
and Minorca
D2026/
X38-41, 43,
44
1745
Executorship accounts of Lieutenant John Capel, killed in the Battle of
Fontenoy
D3393/F5
1745
Account of campaigns following Fontenoy
Photocopy
1459
1761
Letter from Captain Francis Reynolds RN in the Weazle mentioning a
skirmish with an enemy privateer
D340a/C32/1
1747
Letter with reference to Kerr’s Dragoons fighting in Flanders
D153/93
The Jacobite Rising of 1745
Records held relating to the ‘45 include letters from James Wolfe, who was present at the
Battle of Culloden, 1746 [D1571/F715].
1745
Letter referring to the rebellion of 1745
D1844/C28
1745
Jacobite rebellions at Durham
D3549/9/1/1
1745
Pardon for youth condemned to death for carrying arms in the Jacobite
rebellions at Durham
D3549/7/1/8
1745-46
Papers and accounts relating to Captain Bond's raising of Lord Berkeley's
Regiment
D2026/X42
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1745-57
Letters of Major General James Wolfe to William Sotheron while on
campaign against Charles Stuart. Includes eyewitness account of the Battle
of Culloden
D1571/F715
1746
Medal struck on the defeat of the rebels at Culloden
D3549/6/5/4
1746
List of subscribers towards celebration “for the Suppression of the late
unnatural Rebellion”
D340b/X6
1746
Note of debt endorsed with thanks-giving prayer for the Battle of Culloden
D149/F120
[1746]
Anti-Jacobite verse relating to the ‘45 rebellion
D1949/F11
(c.1835)
Copy letters from Rev. William Winterbotham to his son referring briefly to
the ’45 Rebellion in which his great-grandfather fought
D729
The Seven Years War, 1756-1763
1751-53
Letter book of Sir William Codrington with many references to naval activity
in the West Indies during the War, 1756-63, “this destructive German War”
D1610/C6
1756
Letters from Robert Rooke concerning the defence of Jersey and the
capture of the island of Chausey
D1833/
F2/31-32
c.1757
Printed justification for the Duke of Cumberland's retreat to Stade
D1833/Z6
1758
Letters from Robert Rooke referring to the capture of Fort Louis, Senegal
D1833/
F2/36-38
1758
Letter from Calcutta referring to war with the French in India
D153/130
1760
Letter referring to engagement against French ships
D245/IV/11
1760, 1761
Appointment of Gustavus Guydickens as Lieutenant in the 6th (Inniskilling)
Regiment of Dragoons, 1760; and as Lieutenant in the 3rd Regiment of Foot
Guards, 1761
D4582/
3/9, 11
1760-61
Letters from Lord Bath and John Douglas to Brudenell Rooke referring to
the capture of Belle Isle, Major Hayman Rooke being part of the military
force involved
D1833/
F1/27-28,
F2/10
1760-63
Letters to Lieutenant Gustavus Guydickens, aide de camp to Ferdinand,
Duke of Brunswick, relating to his continental service
D4582/
3/8-20
1761
Letter from Captain Francis Reynolds RN in the Weazle mentioning a
skirmish with an enemy privateer
D340a/C32/1
1761
Order (in French) to Lieutenant Gen. Mostyn to attend HQ at Hoff-Geismar
D340a/X15
1761
Order of Battle for the British Army (in French: location not given)
D4582/3/10
1761
Hayman Rooke’s correspondence concerning the Belle Isle expedition
D1833/
F2/7-8
1761
Letter from Robert Gidley, Honiton to the Hon. Edward Weston, UnderSecretary of State, asking on behalf of Francois Bourdet, Captain of the
Fortune, a privateer of Bayonne, and a prisoner of war, for the latter's
exchange for English prisoners
D1022/13
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1761
Letters from India referring to conditions and adventures with the French
D153/
155-156
1761
Letter concerning the constitutional procedure for an attack on “the Neutral
Islands in case of the failure of that upon Martanico”
D1022/15
1762
Letter from Henry Rooke referring to the capture of his ship by French
privateers
Manuscript notes on fortifications [in French]
D1833/F7/11
1762-63
Papers relating to the military service of Count Ferdinand Von Horn – see
Dictionary of National Biography as to whether he was an imposter
D3549/
13/5/10
1763
A list of the intended army on the establishment of Ireland
D1022/16
1763-65
Accounts of prize money paid to the crew of the HMS Phoenix (commanded
by Captain Christopher Bethell, who served in the West Indies during the
War)
D1610/X3
1762
D3549/13/5/9
Insurrection of the Negroes on Tobago, 1770
1770
Papers concerning the insurrection, with letter of thanks to Captain Francis
Reynolds RN of Quebec
D340/X16
1770
Letter from Captain Francis Reynolds RN mentioning the negro rebellion
D340/
C32/10
American War of Independence, 1776-1783
This War not only saw British forces fighting against the rebel colonists in North America but
also action against their French and Spanish allies; indeed, the French intervention was
decisive, at a crucial time, in securing local naval superiority and leading to the capitulation
of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Gibraltar was blockaded and invasion threatened.
1769-1788
Letter from Richard Price concerning his researches on the American War
D6/F140
1775-1780
Letters from Charles Blagdon to his brother John with references to the War
D1086/F113
1776
Granville Sharp’s correspondence with Benjamin Vaughan concerning
American affairs and “errors in generalship”
D3549/
13/1/V5
1776
Nomination of Captain James Blathwayt as officer to embark with recruits
for America, with letter relating to arrival of recruits from Coventry
D1799/F69
1776-80
Letters from Major Henry Rooke relating to the capture of Fort Washington,
1776, to appointments, 1777-78 and to the death of Major Andre, hanged as
a spy, 1780
D1833/
F2/42-45
1777, 1779
Letters referring to the capture of Rhode Island, 1777, and other
developments in the War
D1833/
F3/13/1-2
1778
Letter from John How [agent for the Kinsale estate] to Lord George Vernon
about the tenants who are “exceedingly backward and the alarms of war and
invasions contribute much to make them more soe.”
D7777/2
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1778
Memorandum by Granville Sharp for consideration of the citizens of London
during the American War
D3549/
13/1/L6
1778
Letters to and from Captain Francis Reynolds RN on various naval matters,
touching upon the War against the American rebels and the French.
Include Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown and the defeat of the combined
French & Spanish fleet off Cape Spartel
D340/
C28, 30-31
1779
Letter to Sir William Codrington describing the capture of a sloop and
schooner by a Spanish privateer
D1610/C11
1779
Letter to from an officer in Admiral Samuel Barrington’s fleet mentioning the
large number of English deserters in the West Indies
D1610/C10
1780
Letter from the Bishop of Waterford, Ireland referring to the capture by the
French of a vessel off Waterford
D8342/1
c.1780
Petition from Bury St. Edmunds in favour of discontinuing the War with
America
D3549/
13/3/33
1782
Certificate that Major Henry Rooke “was at liberty again to enter into service”
after having been taken by French privateers when he was returning to
England
D1833/F2/48
1782
Letter and draft from Granville Sharp on the right of citizens to keep arms
and associate for common defence
D3549/
13/1/C8
1782
Draft of letter by Granville Sharp [marked “not sent”] wishing England to
make peace with America and discussing the case of Mr. Lawrence, “taken
prisoner”
D3549/
13/1/C24
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815
Between 1793 and 1815 Britain was at war with France, save for a brief interlude of uneasy
peace in 1802. For much of this time the country was in a state of alert against the threat of
French invasion. The records relating to this period form one of the earliest major references
to “civil defence” on a local level. In addition to the impact of war on the “home front”, the
involvement of individuals in the war at sea and in campaigns on the continent of Europe
and elsewhere are reflected in the archives of some of the family collections held by
Gloucestershire Archives.
The wars themselves affected not only Europe but also Britain’s colonial interests, especially
in Egypt, where the Gloucestershire Regiment’s 28th Foot served, distinguishing themselves
in the Battle of Alexandria, 1801. Another important theatre of conflict was Spain and
Portugal, where both the 28th and 61st Foot fought long campaigns in the Peninsular War of
1808-1814.
Britain’s involvement in the conflict dated from the declaration of war by France on 1st
February 1793. The outbreak of war prompted Britons to look to the formation of voluntary
associations for defence and to make declarations of loyalty. The early years saw reverses
in Europe and heavy losses through disease in the West Indies, relieved only by Admiral
Lord Howe’s victory some 300 miles west of Brest on “The Glorious First of June”. Following
the successful campaign of the young Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy in 1796-97, France
dominated Europe from Holland to Rome.
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The years 1797-98 marked a critical period, with invasion threatening from the harbours of
France, Spain and the Low Countries. The victory of Admiral Jervis and Horatio Nelson off
Cape St. Vincent in February 1797 eased the situation. However, the naval mutinies at
Spithead and the Nore that summer seemed to leave the country wide open to the enemy,
its first line of defence lying dormant in English ports and the blockade of enemy ports
reduced to a handful of ships. Fortunately, matters were resolved and in October Admiral
Duncan won a great victory over the Dutch at Camperdown. Invasion still threatened,
though, as France maintained her dominance on land and many volunteer units were formed
over the next year, such as the Frampton infantry and Dursley cavalry (D149/X17-21,
D9125/8413-8417).
Attention now moved to the Mediterranean as the French seized Malta and Napoleon landed
in Egypt. His hopes of emulating Alexander were dashed, however, by the annihilation of his
fleet by Nelson at the Battle of the Nile, 1798. Undaunted, Napoleon returned to France and
soon became its effective ruler as 1st Consul. His victories in Europe continued, so that
Austria was forced to make peace in 1801 and the second coalition collapsed. Meanwhile
Russia promoted an anti-British “Armed Neutrality” in the Baltic to exclude British trade from
that area, a danger blunted by the Nelson’s successful naval attack on the Danish fleet at
Copenhagen. Measures taken to defend the coast, protect fishermen and provide a reserve
for the Navy saw the raising of a force of Sea Fencibles. 26,000 men enrolled, encouraged,
no doubt, by the freedom from being pressed that possession of a certificate carried. Local
examples of this documentation, 1803, have survived for Arlingham and Frampton [D149
X28]. Eventually, peace was made: the Treaty of Amiens, on 25th March 1802.
This peace was short-lived, however, and on 18th May 1803 hostilities were resumed as
Britain declared war. French invasion plans were now promoted on a grand scale. To meet
this, the navy was strengthened, fortifications improved and new ones built and a levee en
masse authorized. All citizens aged 17 to 55 were to be liable for home defence, although
Volunteers were exempted – and this period saw a great resurgence of the Volunteer
movement. Elaborate plans were made to ensure all the country’s resources could be
utilized in the event of invasion and this has left its mark where copies of lists survive in local
archives, such as those of horses and wagons for Whitstone Hundred (D149 X29).
The threat of invasion came to a head in 1805, but Napoleon’s plans to secure local naval
supremacy and allow his flotilla to cross the Channel were frustrated. With Austria
threatening to renew hostilities, the great camp near Boulogne was broken up and the
Emperor marched eastwards. The great naval victory won by Lord Nelson at Trafalgar, 21st
October 1805, further blunted Napoleon’s hopes, although not removing the French threat –
so that defence preparations continued apace.
Napoleon maintained his predominance on land, with victories such as Austerlitz in
December 1805. Eventually, Britain was able to take the offensive on land herself and the
period 1809-1812 saw the Duke of Wellington’s victories in the Peninsular War as British
forces campaigned successfully in Portugal and Spain. Napoleon embarked upon the
disastrous Moscow Campaign in 1812, his ignominious retreat followed by defeat at Leipzig
and abdication on 6th April 1814. His confinement to the Isle of Elba was short-lived. He
escaped in 1815 and reclaimed the imperial crown, only to be defeated by Wellington and
Blucher in the Waterloo campaign, and sent into exile on St. Helena.
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Records held at Gloucestershire Archives
The Wars saw a great flourishing of the Volunteer movement, for both patriotic reasons and
also because enrolment exempted those who joined a local corps from the Militia ballot.
Surviving records include those relating to the Frampton Volunteers (Infantry) and to the
Dursley and Gloucester yeomanry cavalry. Threat of invasion in 1798 and 1803-05 also
prompted an effort on a national scale to ensure the mobilisation of the whole population in
support of defence arrangements. One product of this was the levee en masse lists of 18034 and the returns made of horses and wagons that could be requisitioned (D149 X29).
There is much material amongst parish records that illustrate the burden placed upon the
county to maintain families of those serving in the armed forces, especially the militia.
Victories were often marked by local celebrations and by special services of thanksgiving,
again reflected in the archives remaining.
British forces saw action on land and sea, and some of the archive accumulations include
material that document the active involvement of those with Gloucestershire connections in
campaigns and battles. The Rooke archive features letters and dispatches from the Duke of
Wellington, a list of British troops involved in the Spanish Peninsular and papers (including a
plan and illustrations) relating to the Battle of Waterloo, 1815 (ref. D1833). There are notes
by William Sandiland on his naval service aboard HMS Victory at Trafalgar, 1805 (P329/2
CW 3/11). The correspondence of Captain John Prince describes campaigns in the
Peninsular and France, 1809-15 (D1799/C101). Another collection features letters and
orders concerning commands held by Captain Frank Sotheron (D1571).
Documents held at Gloucestershire Archives
1. Home Front
1789, 1799
Commission of John Wallington as Lieutenant in the Dursley Gentlemen &
Yeomanry; and as Deputy Lieutenant
D149/
F149-150
1792-94
Captivity in France of English families accused of being spies
D45/F20
1793
Payment of relief to militia substitute’s wife [Slimbridge]
P298 OV 6/1
1793
Order to pay relief to the family of a substitute [Cricklade, Wilts.]
D1070/IX/51
1793
Lines spoken at the consecration of the standard of the 1st Troop of the
Royal Gloucestershire gentlemen & Yeoman Cavalry at Cheltenham
D2663/X11
1793-1813
Orders for the relief of families of militiamen with substitutes’ certificates
[Cam]
P69 OV 6/1
1793-1814
Papers concerning militiamen and the payment of maintenance to their
families [Bisley]
P47 OV 6
1794-1799
Accounts of payments made to militia substitutes and their families
Q/SR
1794-1799
1794-1800
Justices’ order to maintain militiamen’s families [Hawkesbury]
P170 OV 6/1
1794-1805
Miscellaneous papers concerning the administration of the Malmesbury
Troop of the Wiltshire Yeomanry
D1571/X16-18
c.1794-1812
Monthly militia payments [Horsley]
P181 OV 2/6-9
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1794-1818,
1823-28
Militia accounts [Bisley]
P47a
OV 2/1-3, 5-7,
9, 11, 15
1795
Decision to hire Thomas Gregor to serve in the Navy to comply with a
Parliamentary Act to raise serving men [Dymock]
P125 VE 2/2
1795
Notice of a bounty given to a man to serve for the parish in His Majesty’s
Navy [Hawkesbury]
P170 OV 1/6
1795
Order for raising men for the Navy [Rodborough]
P272a CO 2/1
1795
List of militiamen’s families to whom relief is paid to other counties as
substitutes, with maintenance order for the family of a militia substitute
[Stroud]
Q/SR 1795A
1795
Resolution of parish officers, (various parishes), to raise 2 men for the Navy
[Winchcombe]
P368/1 VE 2/3
1795
Expenses of High Constable for raising quotas and paying bounties
Q/SO
Mich. 1795
1795
Rate for naval volunteers [Minchinhampton]
P217 VE 2/1
1795
Return of persons enrolled as volunteers to serve in HM Navy
D1170/9
1795-96
Provision of men for the Navy [Cirencester]
P86/1 VE 2/1
1795, 1806
Forms of prayer issued during the War
P166 IN 4/2
1795-1800
Quarter Sessions orders regarding the support of the families of militia
substitutes [Cheltenham St. Mary]
P78/1
CW 4/18
1796
Justices’ order to pay a bounty to a naval volunteer [Wickwar]
P366 OV 6/1
1796
Relief of families, North and South Gloucestershire Militias
Q/SO 11
(Trinity)
1796
Certificates of capability to serve as Royal Naval volunteers [Newland]
P227 OV 7/1
1796
Navy rate [Gloucester St. Owen]
P154/16
OV 1/2
1796
Formation of a volunteer corps in the Cotswolds and Stroud
D6755/1/1/20
1796, 1800
Notices concerning wheat shortage, 1796 and against forestalling of corn,
1800
D149/X12, 13
1796-1800
Certificates and orders for the payment of relief to militiamen’s families
[Cheltenham St. Mary]
P78/1 OV 6
1796-1820
Certificates of orders for payments to the wives of militiamen [Blockley]
P52 OV 6/1
1797
Celebrations at Stroud to mark the defeat of the Dutch fleet
D4693/14
1797
Printed forms of prayers of thanksgiving for Admiral Duncan's victory over
the Dutch fleet and for “many signal and important victories” [Hardwicke]
P161 IN 4/6
1797
List of the names of balloted men and substitutes sworn and enrolled to
serve in the supplementary militia for the hundred of Brightwells Barrow and
Bradley
D194
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1797
Commission of Charles Brandon Trye, F.R.S. as surgeon to the Gloucester
Yeomanry
D303/F1
1797-1803
Papers of Humphrey Austin senior relating to the Wotton-under-Edge Troop
including correspondence, statements of pay, returns of officers and other
ranks, and notes of ammunition.
D1770/1-31
1797-1800
Warrants for the relief of the wives and families of militiamen, etc. [Charfield]
P74 OV 6/1
1797, 1808
Orders for payment of militiamen, 1797; certificate of enrolment, 1808
[Kempsford]
P189a OV 6/1
1797-1823
Minute book of the Royal Gloucester Yeomanry Cavalry
D4920/1/1
1798
Voluntary payments towards defence [Great Badminton]
P32 CW 2/1
1798
Minutes of a meeting of the inhabitants of Bitton concerning subscriptions
for defence against the French, with a list of subscribers
D123/Z1
1798
List of voluntary contributions from the inhabitants of Dodington and
Marshfield towards defence
D1610/X4
1798
Certificate receipting money paid for defence [Hardwicke]
P161 MI 4
1798
Payments to mothers of men killed in the Battle of the Nile [Dursley]
P124 IN 1/7
1798
Commission of John Darke as Ensign in the North Gloucestershire Militia
D4320/3
1798
Commission as Cornet in the Malmesbury Troop of the Wiltshire Yeomanry
D1571/X7
1798
Justices’ order for payment to militia substitute [Littledean]
P110 OV 6/1
1798
Order to pay relief to the wife of a substitute [South Cerney]
P71 OV 6/1
1798
Militia substitute's allowance [Upton St. Leonards]
Q/SR 1798C
1798
Letters to Captain Francis Reynolds RN (3rd Lord Ducie of Tortworth)
concerning the Supplementary Militia and appointments to it
D340a/
C32/46-49
1798
Commission of John Wallington in the Dursley Gentlemen and Yeomanry
D149/F149
c.1798
Duplicate tax assessment for parishes in Tibbaldstone and Lower Kiftsgate
hundreds made under “An Act for granting an aid and contribution to His
Majesty for the prosecution of the War”.
D5412/V/1
(1798)
Extract from a document about the Wotton-under-Edge Troop
TRS 215
1798-99
Letter and Quarter Sessions order to pay for the maintenance of the family
of the parish’s militia substitute [Welford-on-Avon]
P353 OV 6/1
1798-1800
Papers relating to the formation, equipment and mustering of the Frampton
Volunteers, including muster rolls
D149/X17-21
1798-1803
Militia papers [Whaddon]
P361 OV 6/1-2
1798-1803
Extracts from documents concerning the Loyal Stroud Volunteer Corps and
other volunteer troops in the area
D4851
1798-1803
Records of the Dursley Volunteer Troop of Cavalry including deed of
enrolment, minutes of meetings of the committee, treasurer’s book, and
commission of John Vizard as Cornet.
D9125/
8413-8417
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1798-1804
Correspondence, etc. returns of special constables, horses and wagons, for
invasion defences in Whitstone Hundred
D149/X27-29
1798-1808
Bounty to a balloted militiaman; orders for payments of relief to wives of
militiamen [Rodborough]
P272a OV 6
1798-1812
Warrants for payment to militiamen’s families [Kingswood]
P193 OV 6/1
1799
Act of Parliament for exempting persons serving in the Volunteer Corps
from the militia ballot
D149/X15
1799
Order to pay volunteer [Mitcheldean]
P220 OV 6/1
1799
Payments to militia substitute’s wife
D4693/15
1799
Militia substitutes' accounts
Q/SR 1799B
1799
Draft letters concerning the French invasion (uncatalogued)
D1406/F
Daniel Willey
(2)
1799
Letter resigning commission in the Devizes Yeomanry, Wiltshire
D1571/F656
1799, 1801
Stroud Volunteers: addresses, 1799 and committee resolution, 1801
D4693/14-15
1800
Act of Parliament for indemnifying persons serving in the Volunteer Corps
from Hair Powder tax
D149/X16
1800
Act of Parliament for indemnifying persons serving in the Volunteer Corps
from Hair Powder tax
D149/X16
1800
Reward for information against selling new bread
D149/F44
c.1800
Circulars appealing for money to aid the war
D1571/Q4
c.1800
Part of printed form of service for use in time of war [Somerford Keynes]
P303 MI 5
1800-01
Measures to reduce the consumption of bread
Q/SO 11 Epiph
1800, Epiph
1801
1800-1802
Payment concerning execution of the Act for raising men for the army and
navy (Epiphany 1800), to settle money paid on account of the militia (1801)
and for conveyance of baggage (Epiphany 1802)
Q/SO 12
1800, 1803
Letters from the 5th Earl of Berkeley concerning arms for the Wotton Troop
D1770/33-34
1800-03
Papers noting discharge of soldiers; certificates of militia substitutes; orders
for payments to substitutes’ families [Newland]
P227 OV 6
1800-1864
Correspondence, etc. relating to the Devizes Troop, Wiltshire
D1571/
X168-176
1801
Receipt for substitute payment [South Cerney]
P71 OV 6/2
1801
Payment to Volunteer infantry and reference to an ox and two sheep roasted
on the event of peace
D1610/
A 81, 82
1801-13
Correspondence of James Greene and Charles Bragge partly concerning
plans to raise a legion from French prisoners in England
D421/X17/1-10
1801-21
Medical records, probably of Richard Filkin, surgeon to the Royal North
Gloucestershire Militia
D567/1-39
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1801-24
Disbursements, including payments for militiamen’s wives [Tetbury St. Mary]
P328 OV 2/4-5
1802
Loyal addresses to the King from the Society of Merchant Adventurers and
the Corporation of Bristol on the termination of the war
D421/
X10/147-150
1802
Notices to the Sheriff of Buckingham relating to war preparation
D1245/
FF38/D5
1802
Payments for relief of wives of militiamen and substitutes
Q/SO 10
1802
Licence to the Alfred to transport 417 French prisoners from Stapleton gaol
to Morlaix, Brittany
D421/
X10/30-46
1802-03
Tetbury Volunteer Infantry: papers, including muster rolls
D566/Z13
1802-08
Payments to militiamen’s families [Newnham]
P228 OV 6/1
1802-1816
Militia substitute [Longhope]
P206 VE 2/1
1802-60
Bibury sub-division militia books, 1802-31 and minutes 1806-15
D1070/
VII/63-75
1803
Printed Parliamentary acts concerning volunteers, etc.
D566/Z4
1803
Instructions (printed) relating to Volunteer corps in Gloucestershire
D149/X23
1803
Lists of Fretherne and Stinchcombe Volunteers
D149/X29/1
1803
D9125/8418
1803
Resolutions of a meeting in Dursley to take “the most effectual measures to
co-operate … in the general defence of the Nation”
Certificates of payment, Army of Reserve [South Cerney]
n.d.
Badge of Tockington Regiment (established 1803)
D2604/2/181
n.d.
Copy regulations, Loyal Cotswold Volunteer Infantry (established 1803)
D6755/4/1
1803
Substitute’s certificate [Charlton Kings]
P76 OV 6/2
1803
Militia certificates [South Cerney]
P71 OV 6/3
1803
Names of men from Stroud serving in the Royal North Regiment of the
Gloucestershire Militia
D4693/14
1803
Militiamen’s pay being half that of a substitute for 1 month’s service
[Whaddon]
P361 OV 6/2
1803
Settlement examination of Mary Browning otherwise Bird, of Rodborough,
whose husband may have died in service at Alexandria
TRS 19
1803
Certificates of Arlingham and Frampton-on-Severn men as sea-fencibles
D149/X28
1803
Letter from anonymous prisoner of war in France
TRS 13
1803
Muster roll of the Winchcombe Volunteers
D2218/3/72
1803-1804
Correspondence and papers relating to measures taken for defence,
including lists of special constables in Whitstone Hundred and returns of
horses and wagons.
D149/X29
1803-1804
Order for reward to Daglingworth for supplying militiamen
Q/SR 1804A
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P71 OV 6/3
1803-1804
Correspondence and papers relating to measures taken for defence,
including lists of special constables in Whitstone Hundred and returns of
horses and wagons.
D149/X29
1803-1804
Register, including returns of men enrolled in the 20th Glos. Rifle
Volunteers, 1859-60
L/R
1803-05
Bills for dinner, uniforms, etc. of the Dyrham, Hinton and Doynton
Volunteers
D1799/
A396-398,
C173
1803-07
Records of the Dursley Volunteer Infantry including Captain John Vizard’s
commission, muster rolls, Rules and Regulations, paymaster’s cash book
and muster reports
D9125/
8418-8426
1803-08
Orders for payment to militiaman [Chipping Campden]
P81 OV 6
1804
Letter referring to an imminent French invasion
D269A/C2
1804
Return of carts, wagons, horses, etc. for Arlingham
D18/654
1804
Certificate of enrolment for militia substitute [Kingswood]
P193 OV 6/1
1804
Leave of absence and sustenance allowance for William Jones, militiaman,
Newland
Q/SR 1804D
1804
Examination and certificate of fitness for service in the militia, William Tibble
Q/SR 1804A
1804
List of volunteers and militiamen in Chipping Sodbury
D2071/E51
1804
Letter of William Wilkins, Private, North Gloucester Militia, complaining of
assault by his Adjutant, Captain Windy
D9125/929
1804
Petition of Edward Gilbert of Portsmouth, watch maker, to Parliament with
scheme to reduce cost of war by an improved use of artillery
D421/X11/41
1804-22
Miscellaneous papers concerning payments for militia purposes [Deerhurst]
P112 OV 6/1
1804-05
Papers concerning a slight cast upon the Kings Stanley Rifle Corps in an
article in The Gloucester Herald following a shooting match with the Severn
Rifle Corps
D9125/967
1804-1820
Letters from Ralph Woodward to Lord Bathurst referring to the Napoleonic
Wars
D421/X13/1-29
1805
Schedule of levy money annexed to instructions of receiving and recruiting
officers
MI 4
1805
Copy standing orders for the British invasion of South Africa
D2002/8/7
1805
Reference to a corps of Yeomanry cavalry being founded in Cheltenham
D5130/4/1
1805
Commission of John Holbrow as Lieutenant in the Severn Volunteer Rifle
Corps (uncatalogued)
D1512
1805
Appointment of a Lieutenant of the Tyrone militia
D3893/11/2
1805
Presentation of colours to Tetbury and Horsley Volunteers
D3549/27/5/1
1805
Order to pay relief to militia substitute’s family [Shipton Moyne]
P291 OV 6/2
1805
List of subscribers to a fund for the Trafalgar wounded, widows and orphans
[Kingscote]
P191 IN 1/4
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1805
Thanksgiving for Nelson's victory at Trafalgar
P193 IN 1/3
1805
Form of prayer, including for Trafalgar [Somerford Keynes]
P303 IN 4/1
1805
Sermon preached to mark the victory at Trafalgar [Tewkesbury]
P329 IN 4/5
1805
Contributions from the Royal Gloucestershire Yeomanry Cavalry to the relief
fund for the families of men killed at Trafalgar
D4920/1/1
1805
References to sailors with passes [Cam]
P69 OV 2/2
1805, 1808
Substitute certificate, Royal North Gloucestershire Militia, 1805; order for
payment to militiaman, 1808; orders regarding poor relief to the wives of
men serving in the Royal North Gloucestershire Militia, 1808 [Rodborough]
P272a OV 6
1806
Commission of John Singleton Clarke as Lieutenant in the Devizes corps of
Wiltshire Volunteers
D2025
Box 113
1806
Commission of J Heskins as Lieutenant in the Tetbury and Horsley
Volunteers
D2424/16
1806-44
Payment for conveyance of military baggage, Tewkesbury militia
QT/SO3-SO4
1806
Draft notice asking for new volunteers to meet at Frampton church
D149/X25
1807
Commission to John Boulton as Ensign in the South Worcester Volunteer
Infantry
D2957/134(5)
1807
Names of men serving in the Severn Rifle Corps1
D4693/14
1807
Certificate of money paid to the family of a militia substitute, Winchcombe
Q/SR 1807B
1807
Printed letter to incumbents from the Navy Pay Office concerning assistance
to seamen's families
D269B/B10
1807-09
Commissions of H C Clifford in the Militia and as Deputy Lieutenant
D149/X33
1808
Appointment of Shadrach Charleton as Adjutant
D4432/2/2
1808
Rate for militia purposes [Tewkesbury St. Mary]
P329/1 OV 1/5
1808
Papers concerning maintenance of the family of a militia substitute
D9125/930
1808
Summons to George Drayton of Chipping Sodbury to serve as a militiaman
Q/SR 1808A
c.1808
List of yeomen, tradesmen, labourers and servants named for appeal as to
service in the Gloucestershire militia
D9125/931
1808-09
Bills for payments to families of militiamen [Gloucester St. Nicholas]
P154/15
OV 6/1
1808-28
Quartermaster’s book of the Royal North Gloucestershire Militia
D1976
1809
Names of men from Stroud serving in the Longtree, Bisley and Whitstone
Troop of Cavalry
D4693/14
1809
Militia substitute’s certificate of service and wife’s application for relief
GBR
G3/Fam/3
1810-12
Accounts of the Yeomanry Cavalry, Cirencester
TRS 78
1809-16
Overseers’ accounts, with heading under militia [Cirencester]
P86/1 OV 2/1
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1810
Militia paper [Frampton-on-Severn]
P149 OV 3/1
1810, 1813
Holding ballot for militia, 1813; payments to militia substitutes, 1810
[Painswick]
P244 VE 2/16
1811
Commission of Richard Capes as a Lieutenant in the Horsley and Tetbury
Volunteer Infantry
D2859
1811
Offer by the Duke of Northumberland concerning adjutant of the
Northumberland Local Militia
D1022/30
1812
Appeal against a removal order, infantry soldier, St. Philip and St. Jacob,
Bristol
Q/SR 1812A
1813
Promise by the Duke of Northumberland concerning a commission in the
local militia
D1022/31
1813
Justices’ resolution for subscription to pay volunteers for the local militia
[Littledean]
P149 VE 2/2
(1813)
Transcript of muster roll of the Horsley and Tetbury Volunteers (held in The
National Archives, -:PRO WO/13 4351)
MI 49
1813-14
Payments to the bellringers for celebrating victories at Leipzig and Paris
[Tewkesbury]
P329 CW 2/3
1814
Appointment of Samuel White as Captain in the Royal North
Gloucestershire Militia
D562
1814
Opinions concerning peace, etc.
D1137/3
c.1814
Meeting of clothiers to petition for peace
D149/B12
1814
Letter concerning peace
D2857/2/8/85
1814
Collection for “distressed Germans” by Tewkesbury Baptist Church
D4944/5/2
1814
Feast to mark the Treaty of Paris [Kempsford]
P189 IN 1/5
1814, 1839
“Peace pole”, 1814 and its sale, 1839 [Shortwood]
P223 MI 5, 12
1814
Letter referring to the fall of Napoleon
D2227/32
1815
Reference to “certain prospect of war” with France
D245/I/79
1815
Sermon preached after Waterloo
P70 MI 8
c.1815
Enquiries made by Thomas John Lloyd Baker about soldiers, mostly from
Maisemore, missing after the Battle of Waterloo
D3549/23/3/11
1815
Note concerning the burial of the child of a sailor’s widow [Nether Swell]
P322 IN 1/6
1816
Letter concerning the exhibition of items connected with Napoleon
Photocopy
865
1816
Article in the Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser concerning Napoleon
on St. Helena
D4402/4/2
1818
Letter from Lord Palmerston to Sir Richard Steele that he will receive a
year’s pay as captain of cavalry because of severe wounds received in
action against the rebels in Ireland in 1798
D5626/13/2
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1821
Papers regarding William Ball, a discharged turnkey, who is said to have
been “fighting close to the gallant Nelson when he fell”
D471/X8
1861-62
Several Peninsular War veterans in burial register [Kings Stanley]
P190 IN 1/18
n.d.
Notebook concerning the defence of Hollesley Bay, Suffolk, by General Sir
Eyre Coote, with map showing the position of gunboats
D421/X19
2. Campaigns and battles, with accounts of those held prisoner in France
1792
Letter from Granville Sharp about the eruption of the French army into
“savagery”
D3549/
13/1/G5
1792-1800
Letters and orders relating to Captain Frank Sotheron’s commands (HMS
Fury, Romney, Latona and Excellent]
D1571/
F806-808
1792-[1795]
Papers relating to the imprisonment in France of George and Mary
Whitmore, on suspicion of being English spies
Facsimile of letter from Horatio Nelson to Commodore Linzee requesting an
order to supply rope for HMS Agamemnon
D45/F20, 40
(1793-1795)
Transcribed letters and journals of secretary to Sir Gilbert Elliot on
diplomatic service in Toulon and Corsica
D5626/15/4
1793-1801
List of French, Spanish and Dutch ships lost, taken and destroyed
D1571/F209
1793-1815
Copies of provincial and national newspapers containing articles on the
Napoleonic Wars, including the Gloucester Journal news sheet on the Battle
of Waterloo, 1815
D4432/5/1
1795
Letter from Sir William Codrington describing his imprisonment in Paris
during the Reign of Terror
D6/F18
1796
References to the war
MF 397
1796-97
Correspondence relating to the Windsor Foresters [Volunteer Fencible
Cavalry, commanded by Colonel Charles Rooke], in Scotland after the
alarm about a possible invasion of Ireland; with printed orders and a water
colour sketch of the standard
D1833/
F3/20-23
1796-97
Correspondence of Captain William Ricketts, Captain of HMS La
Magicienne whilst at sea
D8460/8/1/2-3
1797
References to army movements and the troubles in Ireland in letters from
Captain W A Oliver, Dublin
D214/F1/
174, 179
1797
Letter from Charles Edwin mentioning the fleet mutiny at Sheerness and the
refusal of troops to go to Ireland
D214/F1/180
1798
Comments on the Napoleonic Wars and the “French overthrow of the
Turkish Empire” in correspondence of Granville Sharp and Thomas Bigge
D3549/
13/1/B23
1798
Letter from Granville Sharp expressing concern lest America enter the War
and referring to the argument against standing armies
D3549/
13/1/J5
c.1798
Reference to the war in letter
D3549/
13/1/E2
(1798-1799)
Lord St. Vincent & the blockade of Cadiz, as mentioned in reminiscences of
General Sir George Whitmore
D45/F43
(c.1793/94)
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D2202
Box 51 [Office
ref. 1596]
1799
Letters concerning the war in Holland, one written shortly after the surrender
of the Texel fleet
D1833/F9/1
1799
Plan of the capture of the Texel
D1833/F10/8
1799
List of officers in the Dutch Navy
D1571/F809
1799
List of Dutch squadrons from Surinam
D1571/F806
(1799)
Plan and explanation of the Battle of Seringapatam (uncatalogued)
D2019
1799-1813
Letters from Egypt and the Peninsular concerning campaigns, 1799-1813;
newspaper dispatches from Wellington and Hill concerning the Peninsular
campaigns, 1812; plan of “the disposition of the allies under Lieutenant
General Hill in Arroyo Molinos”, 1811
D1833/F14
1801
Plan of the Russian fleet and orders from Lord Nelson
D1571/F806
1801-1805
Papers concerning General Sir George Whitmore and his service in
Gibraltar and the Caribbean
D45/X7/1-5
1802
Correspondence concerning the death of Job Dunn while serving in Holland
(uncatalogued)
D1406
Mines (2)
1802-15
Letters from Captain John Prince of the Coldstream Guards recounting his
part in the Peninsular War and elsewhere
D1799/C101
1803-05
Papers concerning the taking of the French privateer Le Diable off the West
Indian coast by Ensign W H Willis
D1023/F10
1803-06
Log of HMS Excellent [Captain Sotheron] with an account of prizes
D1571/
F810-11
1805
Article in The Times concerning the Battle of Trafalgar
D4402/4/1
1805
Facsimile of The Times reporting on the Battle of Trafalgar
P374 MI 2
1805
Notes on William Sandilands and his naval service aboard HMS Victory
P329/2
CW 3/11
1805-08
Letters and orders received by Frank Sotheron when Captain of HMS
Excellent including reports of the Battle of Trafalgar
D1571/F812
1805-10
Correspondence concerning events in the war, including references to the
Militia Bill and to Spanish affairs
D1571/
F209, 212,
213, 215
1806
Letter from Susana Hiorns in Riga briefly outlining threat of sacking by the
French army if the Russian army proved unable to fend them off
D7213/3
1806-13
Letters, etc. concerning English prisoners of war in France (uncatalogued)
D2240
Temp. Box 41
1807-08
Diary entries in the Commonplace Book of John Hiorns relating to his wife,
Susana, trapped in Copenhagen during the siege by the English; letter from
Susana Hiorns describing the Siege
D7213/2-3
1809-14
Journal of Charles Weston, Quartermaster in the Royal Scots Fusiliers
during Peninsular War campaigns
EL 435
1809-15
Correspondence of Captain John Prince, describing campaigns in the
Peninsular and in France
D1799/C101
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c.1810c.1814
Maps and plans relating to the Peninsular War and battles (including
Salamanca and Vittoria); list of British troops in the Peninsula; news cutting
about the war in Portugal. Also, map of forts on the River Scheldt near
Antwerp
D1833/Z4
1810
Correspondence of Hector MacLaine, chiefly from Malagorda
(uncatalogued)
D3330
Box 20
1810
Reference in the Letter Book of John Letal of Tetbury (page 44) to the 99th
Regiment “late returned from the West Indies where they lost great part of
the Regiment”
D2930/2
1811
Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Fletcher RE to Captain Thomas Dickinson
RN on occasion of death of his son, Sebastian, killed at the siege of Badajoz
D6/F171/1
1811-12
References to actions near Badajoz in south-west Spain during the
Peninsular campaign
D6148/10/1
1812
Warrant for payment of prize money in Spanish campaign [Somerford
Keynes]
P303 IN 4/1
1812
Letters from the Duke of Wellington at Fuente Guinaldo to General Sir
Rowland Hill
D1833/
F7/14, 15
1813
Correspondence of the Hayward family referring to the Battle of Leipzig and
the Peninsular War
D2067
c.1813
Memorandum of Rev Edward Southouse's return from period as chaplain to
the army in Sicily [Wotton-under-Edge]
P377 IN 1/7
1813-14
Letters from William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, to Henry Willoughby
Rooke concerning military matters in Holland
D1833/F10/1
1814
Letter from Henry W. Rooke concerning the attack on Antwerp
D1833/F10/4
1814
Copy of Colonel Lord Proby's brigade order concerning the attack on
Bergen-op-Zoom
D1833/F10/5
(1814-16)
Copy record of Lord Edward Somerset’s part in the Napoleonic Wars
D1571/X67
1815
Long letter from W H Hyett in form of diary while touring Belgium including
battlefield of Waterloo
D6/F21
1815
Letter from William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester concerning Napoleon's
manoeuvres
D5130/30
1815
Letters to Selina Rooke referring to Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington
D1833/F9/2, 3
1815
Sketches, notes and newspaper supplements concerning the Battle of
Waterloo
D1833/Z5
1815
News sheet recounting the Battle of Waterloo
D4432/5/1
1815
Head’s reprint of The Times containing an account of the Battle of Waterloo
D2218/3/61
nd
Maps of battles in the Peninsular War, the Nile Delta and forts on the River
Scheldt
D1833/Z4
1859-63
Letters from Sir James Shawe Kennedy and Sir Alexander Woodford
concerning the questionable conduct of Count Kielmansegge at Waterloo
D1833/F9/4
1865
Recollections of the Waterloo campaign, 1815 by Colonel G.W. Blathwayt
D1799/F220
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1867
Reference to William Sandilands on board the HMS Victory (memorial at
Holy Trinity Church, Tewkesbury)
P329/2
CW 3/11
1895
Letters concerning the Duke of Wellington's dispatch box at Waterloo
D1950/C2
1989
Attack on the Eastern Frontier - March 1806 by P.H. Butterfield
MS 98
Anglo-American War 1812-1814/15
The declaration of war on Britain by American President James Madison meant an
unwelcome diversion from the principal war effort against Napoleon. It caused problems for
the Royal Navy as American warships were ably commanded and well trained in gunnery,
while an attack upon Canada by American forces had to be repelled. However, a blockade of
the American coast and a successful British expedition up the Chesapeake, with the sack of
Washington, brought the Americans to the negotiating table. Peace was signed [the Treaty
of Ghent, December 1814], ironically before the final battle of the War, the British defeat at
New Orleans, January 1815.
1813
Letter to James Wheeler of Hatherop informing him of his son's death in
action in Virginia during the American War of 1812-14
P261 MI 1
War Of Greek Independence
The Greeks rose in revolt against Turkish rule in 1821, attracting much support in England –
most famously from Lord Byron who went out to assist as a volunteer and died at
Missolonghi in 1824. In 1827 Britain allied herself with Russia and France to force an
armistice upon Turkey. Greek independence was effectively secured through the naval
action at Navarino Bay where a combined fleet under Sir Edward Codrington destroyed the
Turkish fleet.
1925-27
Papers concerning the recovery of the Turkish fleet sunk at the Battle of
Navarino, 1828
D1610/F48
Afghan Wars
1835-1844
Letters from and concerning Captain Alex Webster (died Afghan War, 1843)
(uncatalogued)
D2025
Box 76.
1843-83
Letters, diary and other papers concerning Lieutenant Hector MacLaine,
chiefly during the Afghan War (uncatalogued)
D3330
Boxes 19-21,
24.
1851
Letter from the Earl of Ellenborough to the editor of the Naval & Military
Gazette concerning a statement in The History of the War in Afghanistan
[Kaye?] deemed “injurious to the character of the N.I.” relating to their
conduct at Pashawur, India, 1842
D5130/40
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New Zealand Maori Wars
The Maori or “Land” Wars were actually five separate wars fought between 1844 and 1872.
The documents below would relate to the first of these conflicts, the Northland War, 184446. Also known as Hone Heke’s War, after the name of the Maori chieftain who was the
principal protagonist, it was as much a civil war between Maoris as a struggle between them
and Imperial forces.
1845-46
Colonel Cyprian Bridge’s papers relating to military operations in New
Zealand, 1845-46 (uncatalogued)
D2025
Box 113
Crimean War, 1854-1856
The Crimean War, 1854 to 1856, saw Russian forces in conflict with the allied armies of
Britain, France and Turkey. After a hard-fought campaign that included the battles of Alma,
Balaclava and Inkerman, and the Siege of Sevastopol, the allies emerged victorious. The
Gloucestershire Regiment’s 28th Foot fought during the campaign. The War is remembered
on several counts, not least through the nursing standards set by Florence Nightingale. The
dramatic charge of the Light Brigade has left us with a poem, while the names of the
commanders Raglan and Cardigan are perpetuated in items of clothing.
Records held at Gloucestershire Archives
The War is well documented through the diaries and papers of Major-General Francis
Locker Whitmore b.1814 d.1894 (D45 X8/1-7). The archive includes a letter from Florence
Nightingale. Another important source are the papers of Major General James Bucknall
Bucknall Estcourt b.1802 d.1855 (D1571 F485-494) and his wife Caroline (D1571 F495505). His sister Marianne visited the Crimea and composed two albums of watercolour
sketches, besides keeping a diary (D1571 F557-560). Useful too are Colonel R.N.F.
Kingscote’s war journal (D471) and the copies of orders made by Vice-Admiral J.W.D.
Dundas ( D340). Conditions in the Crimea are mentioned in papers of and concerning
Lieutenant Henry Mitford of the 14th Regiment, 1854-55 [D2002 4/1 bdl.7].
Documents held at Gloucestershire Archives
1. At home
1854
Printed letters concerning the collection of food for troops
D866/Q16
1854
List of Cheltenham subscribers to the patriotic fund for war widows and
orphans
D1950/Z20
1855
Copy of national anthem sung by Painswick schoolchildren in thanksgiving
for the taking of Sebastopol
D6/F167/4
1855
Letter from M J Macready of Cheltenham to Edmund White, a sailor on
HMS St. Jean d’Acre in the Black Sea fleet, complaining about the Crimean
War
D2218/3/11
1856
Appeal for the Soldiers Infant House, Hampstead
D149/R76
1856
Public notice of celebrations at Stroud to mark peace
D4693/14
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1856
Peace celebrations at Cam
P69 SP 1/1
1856
Forms of prayer and thanksgiving [Gloucester St. Mary de Crypt]
P154/11 MI 6
1856
Description of celebrations to mark the peace, Wotton-under-Edge
PA 379/7
1856
Letters from Thomas Cratchley to the Mayor and Peace Committee of
Berkeley regarding a pudding provided by 23 Berkeley Castle servants
towards the festivities at the end of the War
D548/Z1
1857
Correspondence and papers concerning the purchase of a Russian gun,
1857; veterans' relief fund, 1909
TBR B38
1858
Presentation of two guns from Sebastopol to Cheltenham
D3893/6/12
1910-14
Papers relating to the annual dinner of the veterans of Winchcombe and
Cheltenham. Includes lists of veterans and letters from Lord Roberts
thanking Miss Eleanor Adlard for her work on behalf of the veterans
D2218/1/2
2. Campaigns and battles
1852-54
Copies made by Admiral J.W.D. Dundas of “confidential orders” from
Britannia off Malta and to Britannia off Sebastopol. (uncatalogued)
D340
Box 1
(acc. 7458)
1853-55
Letters from Major General J.B.B. Estcourt, including eye witness account
of the battles of Balaclava (and the charge of the Light Brigade) and
Inkerman. Also from M.H.B. Estcourt about the death of J.B.B. Estcourt
and quoting a description of the Battle of Alma. Many letters referring to
sickness and suffering of troops in the winter
D1571/F487
1853-55
Diaries of Marianne Harriet Bucknall Estcourt including the Battle of Alma,
with diagrams including the charge of the Light Brigade and reference to
sufferings of the troops. Also to comments on Florence Nightingale, visits
to the camp outside Sebastopol and her brother’s death
D1571/
F557-558
1854
Instructions to the Royal Steam Packet company to avoid capture by the
Russians
Letter from Gallipoli concerning request by Roman Catholic clergyman to
be sent to join expeditionary forces under his care
D4432/4/8
1854
Russian hospital entry certificates
D45/X11/3
1854
Diary of Major General J.B.B. Estcourt, including the battles of Alma and
Inkerman, and the siege of Sebastopol (with plan of troop positions around
the city)
D1571/F485
1854
Copy letters from J.B.B. Estcourt to Lord Lucan about the behaviour of
Lord Cardigan
D1571/F496
c.1854
Map of the Crimea
D149/P15
1854-55
Printed orders of the Crimea expeditionary force with coloured plan
showing disposition of the fleet and general orders relating to the battles of
Alma, Balaclava and Inkerman
D1571/F492
1854-55
Notebook of Major General Francis Locker Whitmore containing cuttings,
cartoons and personal letters relating to events in the Crimea
D45/X8/3
1854
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D45/X9/5
1854-55
Letters from Major General J.B.B. Estcourt concerning shortcomings of the
transport system, the work of Florence Nightingale and her nurses, and
criticisms of Lord Cardigan. Also from Marianne Estcourt concerning the
risk of the army’s move to Sebastopol.
D1571/F486
1854-55
Letters from Major General J.B.B. Estcourt with diagrams and eye witness
accounts of the Battle of Alma.
D1571/F489
1854-55
Letters from Major General J.B.B. Estcourt reporting on the Battle of Alma,
with details of the troops’ suffering. Also from Marianne Estcourt describing
the death of J.B.B. Estcourt.
D1571/F488
1854-55
Printed Parliamentary resolution congratulating J.B.B. Estcourt and others
on the battles of Alma and Inkerman, with extracts from despatches and
notice of his death.
D1571/F493
1854-55
Rough memoranda and account book of Major General J.B.B. Estcourt in
the Crimea, with notes on the battle of Inkerman, his illness and death
D1571/F495
1854-55
News cuttings relating to the Crimean War
D1571/F502
1854-55
Letters from Colonel R.N.F. Kingscote to his father, describing the
progress of the war, conditions, etc.
MF350/3
1854-55
Papers concerning Lieutenant Henry Mitford, 19th Regiment, his service in
the Crimea and retirement on health grounds. Includes letters to his father,
Henry C Mitford, describing conditions in the Crimea
D2002/4/1
bundle 7
1854-56
References to the Crimea in correspondence of Miss Charlotte Baker of
Bath
D1799/
C35, 36
1854-56
Watercolour sketches by Marianne Estcourt of the Crimea, including British
army camps and her brother’s living quarters, with sketch of HQ before
Sebastopol by Captain Clifford
D1571/
F559-560
1854, 1879
Copy of London Gazette, 8th October 1854; printed notes concerning
forces at Inkerman, 1854; list of surviving officers of the Brigade of Guards,
1879
D471/F22 and
MF345/8
1855
Printed plan of the British camp before Sebastopol
D4693/15
1855
Copy return of “Medical Comforts” issued from the Purveyor’s stores at
Balaclava
Extract from a letter from Captain Edward Hibbert (at end of diary of Mrs.
W.T. Blathwayt) describing conditions in the Crimea in January
D1571/F50
Diary of Major General J.B.B. Estcourt referring to problems in the winter,
lack of transport and attempts to take Sebastopol
News cutting about Sebastopol: C O Browne mentioned in dispatches
D1571/F490
1855
Diary of Caroline Estcourt (wife of J.B.B. Estcourt), mainly copies of her
husband’s letters but including her comments on the work of the nurses
and sketches of British soldiers in winter clothes, French troops and J.B.B.
Estcourt’s living quarters
D1571/F490
1855
Administration granted to Mary Anne Kirby of the estate of her son,
Franklin Knight Kirby, “late a Lieutenant in Her Majesty’s 93rd regiment of
Foot at Balaclava in the Crimea, Bachelor”
D2780
1855
Letter from Grantley Berkeley commenting on the “Tory” government and
its conduct during the War
D5530/1/13
1855
1855
1855
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D1799/F251
D1571/F490
1855-56
Diaries of Major General Francis Locker Whitmore of his service in the
Crimea. Includes major bombardment of Sebastopol and a visit by
Florence Nightingale to the convalescent station at St. George’s Monastery
D45/X4-5
1855-58
Letter and pass concerning appointment of Major General George
Stoddard Whitmore to the Turkish contingent and awards of the Turkish
order of the Medjidie
D45/X10/1-3
1856
Letter from Florence Nightingale to F.L. Whitmore (then a major)
concerning the offer of rooms at St. George’s monastery.
D45/X8
1856
The Life of Major General Estcourt [printed booklet]
D1571/F505
1859
A review of the Crimean War Vol. 1, by John Adye
D45/X11/4
c.1860
“Memorandum of circumstances connected with Lieutenant Colonel
Mayoo's services in the Crimea which it is hoped may establish a title to the
Victoria Cross”
D4198/3
c.1860 –
c.1875
Photographs of General Sir Daniel Lysons, his first and second wives, and
his sons
D8460/7/2/1
1861
Letter from a war veteran expressing bitterness against Lord Sidney
Herbert
D1571/X199
1861
Letter from Florence Nightingale to Thomas H Sotheron-Estcourt thanking
him for a copy of the Report of the Herbert Memorial Committee and
returning it with amendments
D1571/X202
1861-68
Papers concerning the Herbert Memorial Hospital and statue, including
references to Florence Nightingale and her plans
D1571/
X205-211
1887
Review of final volume of Invasion of the Crimea by Mr. Kinglake
D1571/F502
1896
Early Reminiscences by General Sir Daniel Lysons (1763-1819) - including
preparations for the Crimean War
D8460/3/1/2
1907-10
Pension fund accounts - war veteran [Tibberton]
P332 MI
n.d.
Photocopy of a letter concerning injuries received at Inkerman
S320/8/2/4
2004
“Chaplains of the Crimean War” by M. Mawson
MI 59
Italian War of Independence, 1848-1849
1859
Notes on the Italian War of Independence, 1848-49, by George Stoddard
Whitmore while at Staff College
D45/X10/4
Indian Mutiny, 1857
1857
Accounts of the 44th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry (uncatalogued)
D2025
Box 116
1857
Correspondence and articles concerning the Indian Mutiny
D6/F181/1-3
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1857
Circularized copy letter containing an account of the massacre of English
soldiers and families after the siege of Futtehghur, India
D245/V21
1857
Diary of Rev. Charles Blathwayt: numerous notes on the Mutiny. Includes:
“our soldiers are burning with indignation and thirsting for revenge on these
incarnate fiends” (August 1857)
D2659/
19/16,17
1857
Form of Prayer to restore peace in India
D4432/8/1
1857-1860
Journal of Edward B Hale, Lieutenant Colonel of the 82nd Regiment, of his
voyages to and from India on HMS Adventure, with some account of a
military expedition on arrival. Also letters to Colonel Hale from army HQ
during the campaign, with press cuttings
D1086/
F188-189
Zanzibar Rebellion, 1859
1859
Letters from Captain C.P. Rigby relating to his command of HMS Lynx
during the rebellion
D3752/1
c.1861
Extract from The Times with accompanying note concerning the role of
British Warships in quelling the Zanzibar Rebellion
D3752/5
19th century
Supper invitation from the Sultan of Zanzibar to officers of HMS Euryalus
D45/X11/5
China War, 1860
1860
Copy of a letter from the Encounter describing the circumstances of the
death of William N Cornewall, shot during an engagement against the
“rebels” in Ningpo
D4582/5/14
American Civil War, 1861-1865
c.1863
Letter describing the United States Civil War from the Confederate side
D3660/1
Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
1870-71
References to the War in the diaries of W T Swift
D3981/6
1870-71
Franco-Prussian War: relief of war victims in the vicinity of Metz
D6977/
1/1, 2/5
Zulu War, 1879
The archives relating to this war between the Zulus under Cetewayo and British Imperial
forces reflect all the main actions, including the battles at Isandlwana, where a detachment
of Lord Chelmsford’s army was annihilated, and Ulundi, where Zulu power was crushed.
Papers also feature the famous defence at Rorke’s Drift, where Alfred Henry Hook was
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amongst those who were awarded the Victoria Cross. Colonel Henry Lysons, a member of
the prominent Gloucestershire family of that name, was also awarded the VC for his part in a
separate action.
1878
Letter to Sir Michael Hicks Beach [Colonial Secretary] from Sir Bartle Frere
[Governor of the Cape & High Commissioner for native affairs] regarding the
growth of Zulu power and the need for reinforcements
D2455/
PCC/1/24
1878-83
Letters from Charles Commeline of the Royal Engineers in South Africa
during and after the War
D1233/44-45
1879
Letters from survivors of the Battle of Isandlwana, describing conditions in
Africa
D678/1/
F16/1/21-35
1879
Picture of Alfred Henry Hook, awarded the Victoria Cross for his part in the
defence of Rorke's Drift
GPS 613/26
1879
Letters from Charles Commeline of the Royal Engineers to his father,
Thomas Commeline, relating to the War and its aftermath. Includes the
battle at Rorkes Drift, death of the Prince Imperial, battle of Ulundi, and the
capture of Cetewayo
D1233/
45/5-28
1879
Photocopies of letters from Charles Commeline to his cousin, Miss Laura
Commeline, during and after the War, including the battles of Rorkes Drift
and Ulundi
D1233/
44/1-3
c.1879
Portrait photograph of Colonel Henry Lysons VC
D8460/7/2/1
1879-1907
Transcript of news cutting giving a description of the events that led to
Colonel Henry Lysons winning the VC, with related correspondence, and his
obituary notice
D8460/6/2
1882
Letters to Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lysons VC (1858-1907) congratulating
him on his attainment of the Victoria Cross for his part in the action at
Inhloblane Mountain, 1879, when he was a Lieutenant in the Scottish Rifles:
from his father, General Sir Daniel Lysons, and from Mrs. Campbell, widow
of a fellow officer killed in battle. Also, letter from General Lysons criticising
the War and the Government
D8460/3/1/2
1906
Press cutting showing the unveiling of a memorial to Sergeant Hook V.C. at
Churcham
D5023/4/2
1982
At War with the Zulus 1879. The letters of Lieutenant C.E. Commeline, R.E.
by Frank Emery
MI 39
1998
African Connections 1873-1943 by Henry Elwes
GE 339
2004
Hook of Rorke’s Drift by B.C. Johnson
ROL D5
First Boer War, 1881
This was a brief conflict prompted by discontent following annexation of the Transvaal in
1877. The Boers (as the descendants of the Dutch settlers were popularly known) rose up
and defeated an Imperial force under General Colley at Laing’s Nek and Majuba Hill
(February 1881).
1880-1881
Letters from Percival (“Percy”) Scrope Marling to his family while on active
service in the Transvaal
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D873/C110
1998
African Connections 1873-1943 by Henry Elwes: account of service in the
War by Lieutenant Robert Elwes
GE 339
Egypt & The Sudan, 1882-1898
1882-1885
Letters written by Percival (“Percy”) Scrope Marling on service in Egypt,
1882, and in the Sudanese campaign, 1884-85 – during which he won the
Victoria Cross
D873/
C67-69,
C110
1885
Letter from Percival Scrope Marling to H O Lloyd Baker describing his
experiences in the army
D3549/29/3/8
1900
An account of Major Percival Scrope Marling of the 18th Hussars, “a V.C.
hero”, in the Penny Pictorial Magazine, with other papers relating to him. He
won the VC in the Sudan on 31st March 1884 while in the 3rd Battalion,
King’s Royal Rifle Corps
D5530/2/3-6
Spanish-American War, 1898
1898
Letter concerning the progress of the Spanish-American War
D4070/6
1898
References to the destruction of the Spanish fleet at Santiago in diaries of
W T Swift
D3981/25
Second Boer War, 1899-1902
The Second Boer [South African] War was fought between the British and the Dutchdescended Boers of the Orange Free State and Transvaal. The War of 1899-1902 included
the famous sieges of Kimberley, Ladysmith and Mafeking. British victory came eventually
through a war of attrition, after serious reverses in the face of guerrilla tactics and superior
enemy marksmanship. The Boer Wars saw both the Gloucestershire Regiment and
members of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars (as Imperial Yeomanry) in service.
Records held at Gloucestershire Archives
1.
At home
1898-1907
Diary of Mary (“May”) Ruth Lloyd-Baker as Secretary of the Gloucester
Division of the Soldiers & Sailors Family Association, with related papers,
including correspondence about the pay of Trooper J P Holder
D3549/31/1/3
1899
Prayer
D6919/8/12
1899
Queen's letter for a collection to be made for the aid of the war wounded,
Blakeney
P50 IN 4/3
c.1899-1900
Photograph of celebrations for the relief of Mafeking or Ladysmith
D2604/2/99
1900
Photograph of crowd at town pump, Thornbury, celebrating the relief of
Mafeking
D4764/3/62
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1900
Poster of the programme to celebrate the relief of Mafeking in Hessle (near
Hull)
D8829/4/1
1900
Peace celebrations [Chipping Campden]
P81a PC 1/9
c.1900
Collections and prayers [Fairford]
P141 IN 4/8
c.1900
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Procession of ambulance
wagons, built for the Boer War, watched by a crowd outside “The
Gloucester”
D4791/17/2
(p108)
1901-02
Yeomanry Welcome Fund
TC4
1902
Printed description of South African War memorial in Gloucester Cathedral
D3549/
C31/1/7
[1902?]
Photograph of celebrations, Chipping Sodbury
GPS 300/15
1902
News cutting about the homecoming of Lieutenant W.H.V. Darell to
Fretherne Court (from Gloucestershire Chronicle 6th September)
D4124/26
c.1902-03
Photograph of meat being roasted for peace celebrations, Olveston
D2604/2/24
1904
Postcard, unveiling of Clifton College war memorial
GPS 60/6
1906
Description of the east window of the Chapter House of Gloucester
Cathedral, designed as a memorial to the dead of the South African Wars,
with order of service for its dedication.
D7086/2/6
1969
Molly Fielding recalling on tape Gloucester at the time of the Boer War
D6112
[tape 50/3]
2.
Campaigns and battles
1880-1901
Letters from Percival (“Percy”) Scrope Marling VC to his family while on
active service in the Transvaal in the 1st Boer War and in the 2nd Boer War
D873/C110
(1899)
Copy letter from Harry C. Parfell when a POW at Pretoria
D1799/C162
1899
“Mafeking”: sepia print of soldiers in action
D4920/2/1/30
1899-1900
Autographs of the Chaplain to the Natal Colonial Forces during the siege of
Ladysmith, 1899-1900, and of the Rector of Mafeking, 1900
D4680
1899-1900
References to the War in the diaries of W T Swift; include, for example, the
incident of W S Churchill and the armoured train (Diary 17 November 1899)
D3981/27-30
1899-1901
Letters to Mary Ruth Lloyd-Baker and her sisters from men on active service
and papers about sending parcels out to South Africa
D3549/
31/1/4, 6
1899-1901
Journal of an unnamed soldier in the Gloucestershire Regiment serving in
the War
D7474
1899-1902
Letters from Percy Scrope Marling to his family while on active service in
South Africa
News cuttings and reports
D873/C110
3rd (Gloucestershire) Company, 1st Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry at Horfield
barracks, Bristol, in training before embarkation
D4920/2/1/33
1899-1902
1900
- 130 -
D873/F68-69
1900
The Mafeking Mail, 25 January [facsimile]
D2218/3/61
c.1900
No. 1 Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, mounted, near Cape Town
D4920/2/1/34
(1900), 1992
Imperial Yeomanry, including W.F. Croome, outside a train carriage in Cape
Town; with letter by his grandson, 1992
D4920/2/1/32
1900
Letters from Bob Haines to his mother (uncatalogued)
D177
Box 54
1900
Article on “V.C. heroes who have fought and are fighting in South Africa” in
the Penny Pictorial Magazine
D5530/2/3
1900
Letter from Ben Neale recounting his experiences in the War
D4920/2/1/35
1900
Autograph of G E Pennington, chaplain to Natal Colonial Forces during the
Siege of Ladysmith, in an album of verses and drawings
D4680
c.1900
Pamphlet blaming Kruger for the war
D6977/2/8
(1900)-1998
Copy documents concerning RGH in the Boer War
D4920/
3/6/2/16
1900-02
Letters to Maud Yorke from her brothers on active service in the War
(uncatalogued)
D2240
Box 43
1900-02
Letters received by Granville Edwin Lloyd-Baker during the War
D3549/
27/3/22
1900-03
Studio portraits of returned officers
D4764/3/6
1901
Letters from former incumbent concerning the course of the war and issues
involved [Cainscross]
P68 IN 3/6
1901
Report from Trooper Dickenson in the Cheltenham Free Press and
Cotswold News, 26 January
D4920/2/1/43
1902
Reference to David Mitford, wounded, Batsford
P38 VE 2/2
1905
Copy memorial inscription to the dead of the 18th Hussars who fell in the
Boer War
D866/F70
c.1905
A.L. Graham-Clarke as Lieutenant Colonel R.A. (he served with RGH in the
Boer War)
D4920/2/1/51
c.1945
Draft manuscript of a history of the RGH including the Boer War period
D4920/
3/3/2/3
n.d.
Notes on the War [Moreton Valence]
P222 OV 8/5
1963
“Our First Battle Honour”; account of RGH part in Boer War [author
unknown]
African Connections 1873-1943 by Henry Elwes: account of service in the
War by Henry Cecil Elwes and William Beckwith
D4920/3/3/7
1998
GE 339
Russo-Japanese War 1904-05
1904
Reports in parish magazine from nurse at a military hospital in Japan during
the Russo-Japanese War [Tewkesbury St. Mary]
- 131 -
P329/1
IN 4/2/1
Balkan Wars 1912-1913
1902-14
Reference to the Balkan War of 1912 in the minute book of Messrs. Hunt
and Winterbotham, cloth manufacturers, Cam
D2776/12/1
FIRST WORLD WAR (GREAT WAR) 1914-1918
The First World War, 1914-1918, saw Britain and her Empire, with her principal allies France
and Russia, ranged against the Empires of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey. The
Royal Gloucestershire Hussars suffered heavy casualties in the fighting against the Turks at
Gallipoli and in the heroic action at Katia in 1916. Following the Bolshevik seizure of power in
1917, Russia surrendered. However, after the late entry of America into the War in 1917,
Britain and France, with the help of their new ally, emerged victorious in 1918.
In terms of local records, the First World War is the first conflict to provide a wealth of
material on the home front, from propaganda and air raid records to food production and
rationing records, as well as memorial lists and faculties. Letters and diaries of serving
troops are also far more numerous than in earlier conflicts, while the popularity of
photography has resulted in a range of mostly formal individual and corps pictures.
Records held at Gloucestershire Archives
Holdings include letters between W.H. Dickinson and various German correspondents
discussing the war, 1914-17 [D6/X5/11,13], a book of poems and letters from the front,
1914-15 [D1770], letters from Dyrham parishioners on active service, 1914-18[D1799/C16364], the diary of naval officer in the Mediterranean Sea, 1914-15[D6919/9/3], illicit diaries of
soldiers serving in France, 1915-18[D7889/1/2], transcripts of military tribunal hearings at
Gloucester involving conscientious objectors, 1916[D1340], War Tribunal, Thornbury,
applications for exemption from military service, 1916-18[D1578], recruiting posters, c.191418 [TBR E10, E25/17] and notes on various war poets including Rupert Brooke and Edward
Thomas, 1980s. See also the records of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, previously
listed. Information relating to the War can also be found in County Council and Standing
Joint Committee papers [SJ/C, CC/W], its War Agricultural Committees [CWA/M/1-5] and the
War Relief Committees [CX/M2/2].
Local newspapers are an important source for the War and feature in the Gloucestershire
Collection. The “Bygones” collection of newspaper pictures; various newspapers, including
the Cheltenham and Gloucester Graphic; newspaper cuttings - all indexed. Also copies of
Officers Died in the Great War 1914-1919 and Soldiers Died in the Great War: Part 33 The
Gloucestershire Regiment.
The BBC’s millennium oral history project, The Century Speaks, generated interviews
recorded onto mini-disc and transcripts of Gloucestershire people talking about their lives.
This substantial archive which also includes some photographs of the contributors, was
deposited at Gloucestershire Archives in February 2000 [D8497]. It includes some memories
of the First World War.
- 132 -
The Home Front: General
c.1913-19
Personal papers of Miss Eleanor M Adlard relating to the War. Include
nursing, communal war kitchens, POWs, “Sock Fund”, agricultural efforts
and work done by Women’s Institutes. Also, address from Lord Roberts,
c.1913
D2218/1/4-7
1913-21
Letters from Eva Tibbitts (later, Martin) in Canada to her mother. Wartime
letters illustrate the impact of the conflicts and reveal a change in attitude to
the German couple who ran the boarding house where she was staying
D5049/2
1914
27th July edition of The Daily Graphic giving details of the “dread calamity of
war”
NS/7
1914
Note of cancellation of Temperance Society outing to Portsmouth because
the outbreak of War had caused the cancellation of all trains and closure of
the dockyard
D7188/9/22
1914
References in parish magazine to reactions on the outbreak of war [Fairford]
P141 IN 4/14
1914-15
Enlistment posters and related propaganda
D4016/5
1914-16
News cuttings, mainly relating to events concerning the Forest of Dean,
including recruitment campaigns, reports from the Front by locals, the
treatment of wounded soldiers, and effects on local industries
D4880/5
1914-16
References to disruption caused by the war [Churchdown St. Bartholomew
and St. Andrew]
P84/1
CW 3/6
1914-18
Tewkesbury Weekly Record
TBR
E19/1-33
1914-19
Scrapbooks compiled by Mr. F.E. Cardwell concerning war-related events
(very detailed, covering a great variety of topics). The entries include many
references to aspects of the War on the home front, especially to the war
effort in Gloucester and Cheltenham. There are also references to national
events of note, such as the sinking of the Lusitania
D4180/1-4
(1914-19)
Memoranda on war work done by schools and societies in Gloucester
D9125/5304
1914-20
Letters and papers relating to the relief of distress caused by the war,
mobilisation, recruitment, relief for Belgium, peace celebrations and the
employment of ex-servicemen
D551/11-15
1915
War poems from The Times 9th August
D2218/3/61
1915-16
Discussion of the war in letters from the United States
D6035/1/13
1915-20
Names and addresses of children who might need visits if bereaved
[Cheltenham St. Mary]
P78/1 SP 2/1
1916
Claims of the Corporation concerning the prohibition by the Ministry of
Munitions under Defence of the Realm regulations of the Barton Fair on
Oxleaze
GBR
L6/11/51
1916
War edition of the The Citizen newspaper
D4548/17
1916
July edition of The Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic
P53 MI 3
1916
Defence of the Realm (Consolidation) Regulations, 1914, as to Lights, etc.,
1916
P330 MI 2
- 133 -
1916-42
Papers relating to wartime orders and requisitioning of premises
D3757
(acc 10269)
1917
Defence of the Realm Manual
Q/Y 7/14
1917
Response of Nonconformist chapels to the effects of war
D2626/3/11
1918
Front page of The Star, reporting the Armistice
MS 66
1920
Profiteering Act – committee
GBR B4/37
1920
Copy resolution from the Passel commune in northern France, thanking
Cirencester for its help in post-war reconstruction
DA/4/131
c.1920
“Token of respect” from the citizens of Gloucester
D3558/133
n.d.
Display of German gun (uncatalogued)
D6822/7
Hospitals and other Medical services
The records include papers relating to the Voluntary Aid Detachment (V.A.D.) Red Cross
Hospital at Standish, 1914-18 [D5425/37/2-3; ME13-15] and records concerning the use of
Leckhampton Court as a V.A.D. Hospital, 1915-19 [D8831/14; D5130/5/1-3]. Other material
includes records relating to the hospitals in Cheltenham, Cirencester and Lydney.
1909-23
Reports of Bristol and Gloucestershire branches of the British Red Cross
Society; leaflet regarding Queen Mary’s Convalescent Hospital,
Roehampton; letters to Miss E M Adlard from soldiers whom she had
nursed
D2218/1/3-5
1910-13
Emma Audry’s nursing certificates
D5425/37/1
1914
Letter referring to the preparation of Red Cross units
D551/14
1914-15
Tributes to Ellen Hicks-Austin as a nurse at the Red Cross hospital,
Cirencester (uncatalogued)
D1770
1914-18
Humorous drawings by soldiers at the V.A.D. Red Cross Hospital at
Standish, 1917-18; with other papers relating to the hospital, 1914-18,
including photographs of staff, patients and buildings
D5425/37/2-3
1914-18
Correspondence of the Yorke family, including letters relating to soldiers
nursed at Tewkesbury (uncatalogued)
D2240
Temp box 43
c.1914-18
Photograph of Ambulance unit outside Aust School with young men in
military uniform
D4764/4/18
c.1914-18
Photograph of a group of wounded at the Red Cross Hospital, Pontyclun,
Glamorgan
D5307/56
c.1914-18
Photograph of young woman in army nurse’s uniform with medal on dress
[from amongst records of St. George’s Association, established in London in
1885 to rescue wayward girls]
D7875/3/3
c.1914-18
Photograph of wounded soldiers in convalescent home, Isle of Wight
TBR D56/4
1914-c.1924
Stroud Original Holloway Benefit Society: membership application forms,
including question on medical problems resulting from the war
D8004/1/2
1915
Reference to French Wounded Soldiers' Fund
P309 IN 4/3
- 134 -
1915
Fundraising for the Red Cross and Volunteer Training Corps at Thornbury
D4764/3/1
c.1915
Letter and receipt for the joint war committee of the British Red Cross and
St. Johns [Blockley]
P52 MI 10
1915-19
Leckhampton Red Cross Hospital cash and gift books
D5130/5/1-3
1915-19
Records of Leckhampton Court during its use as a V.A.D. hospital, including
autograph book of E Gladys Duckworth (a cook), notebooks of Miss Harland
(“colonial visitor”)
D8831/4/1-2
1915-19
Photographs of soldiers at the Red Cross Hospital, Leckhampton Court
D8831/4/3-5
(1915-19)
Photocopy of a book kept by F.E. Cardwell of Cheltenham, detailing his
work in the V.A.D. and Red Cross Hospitals in Cheltenham, 1915-18
MI 32
1916
British Red Cross Society discharge details for L/Cpl F Betteridge
D2240
Box 42
1916
Letters concerning a substitute for the Organising Secretary, Local Higher
Education Committee for the Wotton-under-Edge area on his joining the
“Friends” Ambulance Service
D733/2/12
c.1916
List of donors and volunteers at the Red Cross Hospital [Boddington]
P53 MI 2
c.1916
Photograph of convalescing soldiers and Red Cross nurses, possibly at
Staverton Vicarage
P311 MI 23
1916-17
Minutes of the Barton Street Working Men’s Club with reference to use of
hall to entertain wounded soldiers and their nurses
D9008/1/2
1916-17
Letters concerning war work by Katherine (“Ketha”) Murray-Browne at
Kensington War Hospital, with booklet about the hospital
D3549/
35/2/14
1917
Photograph of staff and soldier patients outside Naunton Park Hospital,
Cheltenham
D5435/6/17
1917-18
Letters and reports relating to nursing in the county
D2240
Box 42
1918
The Red Cross in Gloucestershire (illustrated)
D5627/4/2
c.1918
Typescript extract of Standish V.A.D. Hospital Magazine, summer 1918,
describing the third anniversary celebrations
ME 15
1918
Use of Naunton Park Schools as Red Cross hospital [Cheltenham]
P198/2 IN 4/9
1918
Photograph of nurses and wounded soldiers outside Lydney Hospital
D5627/4/3
1918-19
Standish V.A.D. Hospital Magazine, spring 1918, summer 1919
ME 14
1918-19
Records relating to Sidney Priday (Warwickshire Regiment): Soldier's
clinical chart while in hospital and demobilisation account
D5132/1
1918-19
Hospital and demobilisation records of a private soldier in the Royal
Warwickshire Regiment
D5132/1-2
1919
“Souvenir” of Leckhampton Court V.A.D. Hospital, 1914-19, including roll of
staff and patients; cutting regarding its “Big Birthday Party”
D5132/4/6-7
1983
News cuttings referring to the treatment of wounded soldiers at Lydney
Hospital in 1919
D5627/4/3
- 135 -
n.d.
Photocopy of title sheet and sample page of a diary of concerts given to
entertain wounded troops and to raise money in the Cheltenham area, kept
by F.E. Cardwell
MI 33
n.d.
National registration card of M E Yorke, VAD nurse, Forthampton Court
D2240
Box 42
1922
A short history of Standish Hospital, 1915-65
ME 13
1914
Letters and papers relating to the relief of distress caused by the War
D551/14
1914
Correspondence and papers of H.P. Thurston as clerk of the Thornbury
Subsidiary Committee of the Glos. War Relief Committee (uncatalogued)
D1578
1914-16
Stow-on-the-Wold War Relief Committee and Soldiers’ & Sailors’ Families
Association: Secretary's letter book
D4084/
17/7 & 38/7
1914-20
Minutes of the Lord Lieutenant's fund to alleviate war distress in
Gloucestershire
TC9
1914-21
County War Relief Executive Committee minutes, 1914-21, and War Relief
Unemployment and Distress Committee, 1914-16
CX/M2/2
1915
Correspondence, including cases put before Stroud District Subsidiary
Committee by Whiteshill War Relief Sub-Committee [Whiteshill and
Ruscombe]
P363a
PC 10/5
1916
War Charities Act - committee formed
GBR B4/34
1916-29
Register and regulations of war charities
GBR
L6/23/B774775
1921
Pamphlet: The Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen’s Families Association
D2218/1/9
1914
Gloucestershire police volunteers
Q/Y 6/1/7
1914
Photograph of Cheltenham Volunteer Force
NS/50
c.1914-18
Formal group photograph of the Tewkesbury Local Defence Volunteers
TBR E63
1915-19
Newent Volunteer Corps minutes
D4277/6
1915-17
Lydney Volunteer Corps: minutes and news cuttings
D5627/7/6
1919
Letter concerning disbanding the volunteer force
D6919/10/1
Letter referring to the opening of a recruiting office
D551/11
War Relief
Volunteers
Recruitment
1914
- 136 -
1915
Gloucester railway carriage & Wagon Company: Recruiting procession for
war munitions workers
D4791/17/3
(pp193-199)
1915-17
Military tribunal enlistment papers, Thornbury district (uncatalogued)
D3789
Boxes 3, 12
1915-19
Tewkesbury Recruiting Committee minutes
TBR D30
1916
Replacement of sacristan called up for military service [Berkeley]
P42 CW 3/23
1916
Certificate of exemption from military service, Stratton
D182/1/35
1916
Army reserve call up poster, Staunton
P309 MI 2
1916
Military tribunal hearings for conscientious objectors
D1340/C3/Z1
1916-18
Papers of Miss Gertrude Lewis, employed at the Recruiting Office
D4700/1
1916-18
Applications for exemption from military service, Thornbury War Tribunal
D1578
1916-18
Papers concerning the Gloucestershire Appeal Tribunal
D570
1917
Volunteering of clergymen for national service
P13 VE 2/2
c.1917
Correspondence of C.S. Holliday, farmer of Bishops Cleeve, arguing against
the conscription of his workers
D5435/1/1
1918
Note and application form applying for exemption from military service for
Thomas Meadows, oxman, Moreton-in-Marsh
D8182/3
1915-20
Papers concerning War Pensions Committee
D6/X6/32
from 1923
Gloucestershire War Pensions Committee
GBR B4/35
War Pensions
Food & Agriculture
1914
Letter referring to arrangements being made by the government for food
supplies
D551/11
1914-20
Papers concerning the County Council's War Agricultural Executive
Committee
D6/X6/31
1914-21
Correspondence from the County War Agricultural Committee
P48a PC 1/3
1915-17
County War Agricultural Committee papers
CWA/V
1915-18
Minutes of the War Agricultural Sub-Committee, Stroud
DA35/118
1916
Food rationing [Gloucester All Saints]
P154/1 VE 2/2
1916-18
Circulars from the Agricultural Organization Society giving examples of work
done by Women’s Institutes encouraging women to help on the land; from
the Gloucestershire Fruit & Vegetable Society about food production and
marketing
D2218/1/7
- 137 -
1916-21
Minutes of Gloucestershire War Agricultural Executive Committee, 1916-20,
War Agricultural Farming Committee, 1919-21, Women’s Agricultural War
Service Committee, 1917-19, War Agricultural Cultivations Committee,
1918-19 and War Agricultural Survey Committee, 1918
CWA/
M1/1-3, M2/1,
M3/1, M4/1-2,
M5/1
1917
Royal proclamation exhorting a reduction in bread and grain consumption
P366 MI 3
1917
Royal proclamation for national economy and frugality
NA 13
1917
Papers concerning the Patriotic Economy exhibition in Gloucester
D9125/5316
1917
Royal proclamation concerning the shortage of grain
P216 MI 6
1917
Staunton Court general farm accounts, including army privates working as
labourers
D8815/1/3
1917-18
Ploughing up orders (uncatalogued)
D1348
Bundle 72
1917-18
Gloucester food economy, supplies and propaganda: committee minutes
D1925/
5311-5313
1918
Copy order to plough pasture land [Rangeworthy]
P264 CH 4/2
1918
Cultivation order for pasture land [Stone]
P315 CH 4/13
1918
Forestry notebooks of John Irvine of Chedworth [working for the
Government’s Timber Supply Department making surveys of woodlands in
the south-west and south Wales]. Includes references to Portuguese
workforce, employment of men in army and suitability of wood for
aeroplanes; photographs of Portuguese camp; OS map annotated to show
the camp
D9249/
1/1-2, 6 & 9,
4/30-31, 9/3
c.1918
Details of stock and acreage, and numbers of men and boys employed
before and after the War – Harbage family farm, Moreton-in-Marsh
D8182/3
1918, 191826
Gloucestershire Pig and Potato Committee: copy of Lord Bledisloe’s speech
to set up the society, 1918, and minute book
D7324/
1/1 & 8/1
1918-43
Correspondence concerning allotments, 1918-43, including Gloucestershire.
Rural Community Council War Time Bulletins, nos. 1-6, 1939-40 [Awre]
P30a PC 33/2
1920-21
Proposed acquisition of land in Alkington for the Ex-Servicemen's Land
Settlement Scheme
D5412/III/17
1923-24
Smallholdings for ex-servicemen [Standish]
P305 MI 3
c.1974
The role of the war agricultural and executive committees in the food
production campaign of 1915-1918 in England and Wales by John Sheail
AG 25/2
1977
Article by Norman Irvine referring to commandeering of Chedworth Woods
by the Board of Trade in World War 1
D9249/4/25
1917
Article in the Bath Herald about the new “ration scale”
D1799/E313
1918
Ration book of Rev. W.E. Blathwayt
D1799/E313
1918
Ration card
D3471/945
Rationing
- 138 -
1918
Ration cards for M E and E M Pates of Cheltenham
D7746/2
c.1918
Food ration cards issued to Lucy Roberts for use at Gloucester shops
D4761/5
c.1918-21
Food ration cards, Gloucester
D4918/3
William Colwell of Hucclecote: Correspondence on return by Air Ministry of
land requisitioned for Brockworth aerodrome
D6666/1/26
Requisitions
1921
Refugees & Belgian relief
1914
References in parish magazine to the Belgian Relief Committee [Fairford]
P141 IN 4/14
1914
Belgian refugee children attending school [Broadwell]
P61 SC 3
1914-15
Photographs of Belgian refugees at Yate (uncatalogued)
D6822/110
1914-18
Papers concerning the Forthampton Belgian Refugee Committee, with
correspondence of the Yorke family, including letters from Belgian refugees
D2240
Boxes 42 & 43
1914-19
Belgian Refugees Committee, Barnwood and Wotton Without: committee
minutes, 1914-19, registers of subscribers, 1915-19, cash book, 1915-19,
accounts, 1915-19
D575
1914-20
Letters and papers relating to relief for Belgium
D551/13
(c.1914)
Resolution concerning the internment of enemy-born subjects [Stratton]
P319a PC 8/1
1914-16
Aliens' restrictions orders, 1914, 1916
Q/Y 2/2/1
1915-27
Director of Forestry for England: Forest of Dean. Papers relating to the
housing of aliens at woodmen’s School, 1915-17, and to emergency
cultivation and employment of alien labour, 1915-27
D9096/
F3/1402, 1430
Enemy Aliens
National Registration
1915
I.D. card of Mrs. R.W. Blathwayt
D1799/F74
1915
I.D. card: Hetty Smith
D4175/3
1915
I.D. card
D5435/6/16
1915
I.D. cards: Frederick W. Fisher and Minnie Fisher (nee Warren)
D6633/2/1
1915
I.D. card: E M Pates of Cheltenham
D7746/2
1915
Overseers' work under the National Registration Act
P345 OV 7/3
- 139 -
1915-16
I.D. card and war savings card: Stanley Grimes of Wotton-under-Edge
D113/Z6
1918
Certificate of national registration
K1344/1
n.d.
I.D. of M E Yorke, VAD nurse, Forthampton Court
D2240
Box 42
1915
Letter from Colonel W.F.N. Noel of Stardens, Newent, to F.A. Hyett of
Painswick, concerning an air raid on Margate
D6/F132
1915
General Committee minutes, including the joint meetings of the Electricity
and Lighting, and General Purposes and Watch Committees, referring to
provisions for air raids
CBR C2/3/1/1
1916
Query regarding the insuring of the church against Zeppelin raids
[Bledington]
P51 CW 2/1
1916
Patrol orders for members of volunteer air raid defence organisation for
Gloucester; circular concerning the Mayor of Gloucester's test mobilisation
for air raid defence organisations
D5559/1/8
1916
Circulars relating to air raids
GBR L21/2
1916
Insurance of church against war risk from aerial craft [Tredington]
P339 CW 3/4
1916
Blackout of church [Nailsworth]
P223 VE 2/3
1918
Description of air raids on London
D4761/6
n.d.
Letter from C W Taylor mentioning a Zeppelin raid
D2240
Box 42
n.d.
Extract from poem on the wartime bombing of Yate (uncatalogued)
D6822/67
Air Raids
Employment & Manufacture
1910-18
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: War Office – diagrams
of rail wagons, general service wagons, ambulance wagons, tool carts and
gun limbers
D4791/25/1
1914
Minutes of meeting of directors of Copeland-Chatterson & Co. Ltd of
Stroud held “in consequence of the commercial situation arising out of the
War with Germany”
D9015/1/1
1914-15
Women’s Employment Committee, Gloucester Branch, and Queen’s Work
for Women Fund: minutes
D9125/
5305-5307
1914-18
Effects of the War on the relations between employers and the local
dockers' union
D4828/3
1914-18
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: photographs of War
Office limber wagons
D4791/19/3
1915
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: guarantee to the War
Office concerning contract for 300 timber wagons
D4791/13/14
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c.1915c.1925
H H Martyn & Company, Cheltenham: photographs of propeller
manufacture, workshops and employees
D5922/3/6/2
1916
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: War Office [Ordnance
Dept. RA] – photograph of general service wagon
D5107/5
1916-17
Details of cost of manufacture as required by the Mills Control Committee
D5355/2/2/2
1917
Letter on post-war conditions sent to employees at the Phoenix Works,
Stroud
D2983/2/8
1917
R A Lister & Co. of Dursley: photographs of munitions girls
D7405/1/2/3
1917
Correspondence and circulars, National Service Committee [Dursley]
DA26/224
1917
Cheltenham Printers Joint Committee to discuss the implications of the
National Service scheme
D3983/14
1917-19
Director of Forestry for England: Forest of Dean. Correspondence and
papers concerning the training of ex-servicemen as woodmen and forestry
training for disabled officers; applications for land by ex-servicemen
D9096/
F3/1457, 1467,
1471
1917-48
Gloster Aircraft Company contracts (untitled)
D5922/2/3-6
1918
Plans, papers, photograph of concrete barges built at Hempsted and used
to take munitions from Dover to Calais
D4325/1-5
1918
Coal merchant's permit for the use of a horse drawn goods vehicle
D4467/7
n.d.
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: photographs of women
at work on the factory floor
D4791/17/3
pp.205-207
1919
Letter awarding Jesse Fishlock, mail cart driver, extra pay during the war
[Marshfield]
P213a
PC 13/1
1920
Letters relating to unemployed ex-servicemen in Gloucestershire, Lord
Haig’s appeal and circular letters from King George V
D551/15
1920-37
H H Martyn & Co, Cheltenham, and The Gloster Aircraft Company: papers
concerning the employment of disabled ex-servicemen
D5922/2/24
1982
Reminiscences of members of the Stow and District Day Centre for the
Elderly of war work and employment in munitions factories
D4854
1915-16
Empire Day and Christmas Day certificates issued by the Overseas Club
D3471/418
1915-16
Registration and war savings cards of S. Grimes of Wotton-under-Edge
D1113/Z6
1916
Correspondence concerning war savings [Gloucester St. John Baptist]
1916-19
Papers concerning Gloucester central committee for war savings,
including war loans
P154/9
CW 3/13
D9125/5310
1918
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: sale of war savings
certificates in mess room
War Savings
- 141 -
D4791/17/3
p.204
Intercessions
1914-15
Orders of services including intercession for the armed forces [Hardwicke]
P161 IN 4/3, 8
1914-15
Prayers and intercessions [Oldbury-on-Severn]
P237 MI 1
1914-19
Forms of service, intercessions, hymns [Tredington]
P339 IN 4/2
1915
Pastoral letter from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to church
congregations
P193 IN 4/3
1915-18
Forms of prayer and services [Newent]
P225 IN 4/3
1916
Order of service for the first church parade of the “Lord Derby” men
(freemen)
P78/1
CW 4/18
c.1916
Specimen copy of Order of Remembrance Day service
P156 IN 4/7
1919-45
Orders of service [Standish]
P305 IN 4/4
1929, 1930
Service sheets for armistice services
D2218/3/70
Celebration of Victory & Peace
1918
Letter describing V.E. Day celebrations in London
D6/F181/7
1918-20
War memorabilia, including programmes for peace celebrations and
unveiling memorial tablet to Donna Wyatt, munitions worker
D7442/
33-34, 36-37
1919
Orders of service and forms of prayer, Armistice Day [Standish]
P305 IN 4/4
1919
Dursley Peace Celebrations Committee: minutes, accounts, programme,
etc.
D2078
Box 47/1
1919
Brimpsfield and Syde Peace Celebrations Committee minutes
D4469/8
1919
Thanksgiving service to celebrate the peace treaty [Stinchcombe]
P312 IN 4/4
1919
Welcome Home supper for soldiers, Coleford
D5533/3/9
1919
Minutes of the Tank Week Committee and Victory Loan campaign
D9125/5317
1919
Victory rally at the Royal Albert Hall
D7107/1/1
1919
Peace celebrations [Elkstone]
P135 IN 4/9/1
1919
Programme for peace celebration sports [Whitminster]
P362a
PC 35/1
1919
Papers about peace celebration in Hardwicke
D3549/33/4/8
1919
Programme for peace celebration sports [Dursley]
D3310/1/20
1919
Circular from Winston Churchill with message from the King to Lord
Lieutenants taking part in the peace celebrations
D551/14
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Campaigns, Battles & on Active Service on Land, Sea and in the Air, and individual
experiences
As mentioned in the general introduction to this Guide, newspapers contain much of interest
to the researcher into wars. So, for example, the Gloucester Journal of 8th January 1916
includes “A Troopers Diary”, in which a member of the RGH writes at length on “camp
discomforts in the trenches”. Poignantly, its pages will carry notices of the death of local men
killed in action, often with a photograph of the soldier. The issue mentioned has a picture of
Private Hubert Howell along with a copy of the letter from his commanding officer. He had
been an apprentice at Fielding & Platts, and was killed on 23rd December 1915.
The archives held that relate to action on land, sea and in the air, and to individuals, include
letters, diaries and photographs.
c.1909-1940
Cartoons and articles, including the War period
P104 IN 4/5
1911-19
Papers of Captain E.T. Sotheron-Estcourt as Assistant Military Secretary
to G.O. Commanding Forces, New Zealand
D1571/
F879, 882
1913-16
Papers concerning the death of Granville and Orde Murray-Brown on
active service, 1916, and earlier family correspondence, 1913-16. Also,
diary of Granville Murray-Browne whilst serving on HMS Indefatigable in
the Mediterranean and at Scapa Flow, with copy of the Tenedos Times,
produced by the Mediterranean Fleet, and photograph of Indefatigable
D6919/9/2-3
1913-19
Diary kept by a stoker on board HMS Gloucester
1913-c.1923
Letters from soldiers received by A B Lloyd Baker, with photograph of men
of the 1/5 Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment captured by the Austrians in
1918
Photocopy
1539
D3549/33/4/5
1914-1915
The Gloucester Journal: wartime information and coverage. “Gloucester’s
Roll of Honour”, 12 September 1914; RGH on service – a trooper’s diary, 8
May 1915. Also, a complete active service roll for the RGH
D4920/2/2/2/1
1914-1915
Postcards sent from Egypt by Charles Lovell, RGH
D4920/
2/2/3/9/1
1914-1915
References to the War in the diaries of W T Swift: for example, to the
danger from Zeppelin raids and to the German shelling of Scarborough
D3981/45-46
1914-1915
Letters to Granville Edwin Lloyd Baker from his sons Michael and Arthur
on active service
D3549/27/3/25
1914-1916
Letters to Wilfred Murray-Browne & Katherine (“Ketha”) Browne (nee
Lloyd-Baker) from Arthur and Michael Lloyd Baker and other family
members and friends on active service
D3549/35/2/12
1914-18
War letters of Lord Apsley
MF 1501
1914-18
Correspondence of the Yorke family, including letters from brothers
serving in the First World War (uncatalogued)
D2240
Temp box 43
1914-18
Letters to Rev. W E Blathwayt from parishioners in Hinton and Dyrham on
active service, chiefly in France, but also in Salonika, Palestine and Egypt
D1799/C163164
1914-18
Letters to Mary Lloyd-Baker from soldiers on active service
D3549/31/1/10
1914-1918
Records relating to recruitment, casualties and decorations, with
photographs of the Gloucestershire Regiment in action
D4180/1-4
- 143 -
c.1914-18
Death of Michael Lloyd-Baker at Katia, 1915-16; letters to friends and
relatives from serving men, c.1914-18
D3549/27/3/27
(1914-18)
Extracts from war diaries recorded on cassettes
D3435/62
(1914-1918)
Veterans' reminiscences of the First World War (compiled c.1950-1970)
D3549/34/1/3
1914,1915,
1916, 1918
Diaries of William Matthews (of Middlesex) relating to his wartime service
in the Muswell Hill Training Corps, 1914-15, and 1st London Divisional
Signal Company of the Royal Engineers, 1915-19, including the Western
Front
D7889/1/2
1914-19
Account of service in England, Egypt, France and Belgium
D3435/3
1914-19
Papers relating to Captain Percy Baker, who served in the Royal Fusiliers.
Include biographical details, commission as 2nd lieutenant, 1915, Army
records, photographs of US training trenches and convalescent home on
Isle of Wight (c.1918) and copy resolution in appreciation of men who
served, 1919
TBR D56/2-5
1914-19
Scrapbooks compiled by Mr. F.E. Cardwell concerning war-related events
(very detailed, covering a great variety of topics). Entries include many
references to action on land, sea and in the air
D4180/1-4
1914-20
Letters to Granville Edwin Lloyd Baker commenting on the Greek position
during the War
D3549/27/3/26
c.1914-22
The British Soldiers French phrase book; Instructions for Officers and Men
proceeding on leave; letters from France and children's overseas club
certificates
D4190/37-40
1915
Personal note from Major General Aylmer Hunter-Weston issued to
soldiers before Gallipoli
D4920/
2/2/3/9/3
1915
Card found on the body of a soldier killed in the Dardanelles
P78/1
CW 4/18
1915
Reference in Diary of F W Baldwin to the sinking of the Lusitania
D5931/1/1
1915
Press cuttings concerning the war [Stow-on-the-Wold]
P317 MI 2/1
1915
Letter from Private Benjamin White, on service at Rouen, to injured
comrade
K587/15/1
1915
Letter from J A Worlock to his brother serving in France [envelope
endorsed “killed in action”]
D3979/8
1915
Poem written by Don Davis [Hertfordshire Yeomanry] about the British
cavalry charge on 21st August
D4920/
2/2/3/9/4
1915
Letters from Michael Lloyd Baker from Gallipoli
D3549/32/1/2
1915-16
Francis Adams Hyett: “letters from and about Marmie while in Serbia”
including account of Red Cross Hospital unit run by Dr. James Berry & his
wife, Frances, being captured by the Austrians, 1915; with copy letters &
pamphlets from James & Frances
D6/
F167/18,
F175/16
1915-18
Wartime service of W.H. Matthews of Middlesex and Oxfordshire
D7889/1/1-5
(1915-1918)
Outline map of Egypt, Palestine and Syria with enlargement showing
sphere of operations of the RGH
D4920/
2/2/2/22
1915-1918
Diary of Capt. Edgerton Tymewell (typed copies of letters to his wife, with
biographical details by his grandson)
D4920/2/2/3/4
- 144 -
1915-1918
Papers about Richard Sebastian Dickinson and his career in the Royal
Naval Air Service. Includes description of bombing raid on Constantinople,
1916, and award of DSO
D6/F177/1-3
1915-20
Family correspondence, army orders, maps of trenches in north France
D3398/
1/2/19-20
1915-22
Cards received from a soldier in France, 1915-18. Papers concerning a
soldier's discharge from the Army, and his receipt of disability pensions,
1917-22;
D7094/2, 4
1915-29
Letters, photographs, news cuttings concerning service in France
D3979/9-14
1915-65
Draft history of the Gloster Aircraft Co., with specifications of aircraft and
brief details of operations
D2147
1916
Letters from a pilot describing bombing raids in Turkey
D6/F177/3
1916
Letters and other papers concerning the death of Michael Lloyd Baker at
the Battle of Katia, including news cuttings and contemporary accounts,
and tributes following his death
Fothergill lectures on historical buildings in the Western War Zone
(uncatalogued)
D3549/
30/1/5, 34/1/3
Article in the Bath Herald about 2nd Lieutenant N V H Symons receiving
the Military Cross
Letters from Jack Birchall while on active service, including account of
death of Captain Edward Vivian Birchall at Ypres; sketch by Captain Orde
Browne depicting the popular idea of battle
D2659/27/53/7
(1916)
Letter from a New Zealand soldier announcing his intention to fight in
Europe
D5576/1/7
c.1916
Account of the sinking of the Lusitania
D6/F167/5
1916-1918
Prisoner of war fund accounts
D1969
1916-19
Letters from men serving in the Army in Egypt and Palestine, and in the
Royal Flying Corps, 1916-19
D7101/6-8
1916-19
Diaries of Canon R.E. Grice Hutchinson, temporary chaplain to the Forces
D3355
volumes 10-18
1916-19
Official war diary of the 2/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
MI 30
1916-1919
Diary of Squadron Sergeant-Major George Hyatt, RGH, who was captured
at the Battle of Katia. Includes lists of POWs, wounded and sick, missing
and killed
D4920/
2/2/3/6/3
(1916)-1919
War Diary, with a personal account of the Battle of Katia and experiences
as a P.O.W. - includes lists of those killed, wounded, sick and missing
D4920/1/2/1
1916-20
Documents and photographs of members of the RGH who were taken
prisoner by the Turks at Katia, 1916. Includes list of prisoners and where
held, 1916; samples of letters and Red Cross cards; copy of the Angora
News.
D4920/
2/2/2/30
1916-22
Correspondence of Trewern Henry Smith and Roy Smith, serving in
France; documents concerning the death of Trewern Henry Smith (killed in
action in 1917)
D4190/39-40
1916
1916
1916
- 145 -
D177
Box 71
D3549/31/1/13
(1916), 1959
News cutting from the Gloucester Journal concerning a photograph of
captured RGH men being paraded through Jerusalem following the Battle
of Katia. The article features George Hyatt, Hugh Walwin and Harold
Hawkes of A Squadron
D4920/
2/2/2/31
1917
Letter from a private on active service to Drybrook Methodist Chapel
D2598/18/7
1917
1/5th Gloucester: letter of condolence from the British Red Cross to the
mother of a Gloucester soldier killed in action
D7318/4
1917
Account of a visit to Jerusalem following the city's capture
D6919/9/4
1917
War service of rector [Bourton-on-the-Hill]
P54 VE 2/1
1917
Military pass for absence, Private Colin Kendall Pearson
D3558/167
1917
Religious figure found in a village on the Somme
D6598/1/1
1917
Proposals for ending the war (sent to Arthur Balfour)
D6892/1/6
1917
Visit on leave to England
D3435/54
1917
Correspondence concerning the release of Private A. Dunn from the Army
D5112
Box 4 Bundle
17
1917
Letter from Robert Blathwayt concerning the death of Henry Wynter
Blathwayt
D2659/40
1917
Notification concerning L/Corporal F Roberts, 19th Hussars, being
seriously ill in St. Omer, France
D6556/1
1917-18
Notes taken by a soldier attending military lectures
D4628/5
1917-19
Army Christmas cards and menu
D3558/130
1917-19
Albert Brookes' Royal Naval service record
D7112/1
1917-21
Records of service with the Royal Engineers, Royal Flying Corps and
Royal Air Force
D4084
Box 61/7
(1917), 1927
News cuttings concerning General Allenby’s break through the Turkish
front and his entry into Jerusalem
D4920/
2/2/2/34
1917-29
Commission of Arthur John Worlock as Second Lieutenant, Special
Reserve, Royal Field Artillery, with news cuttings of mentions in dispatches
and papers concerning disability and award
D3979/9-11
1918
References to service as pilot, with photographs
D4693/16
1918
Plans, papers, photograph of concrete barges built at Hempsted and used
to take munitions from Dover to Calais
D4325/1-5
1918
Warrant Officer's appointment
D4123/9
1918
Certificate of service, Private Albert Smith
D4310/1
1918
Temporary exemption from military service
D4467/8
1918
Notice of award of military cross to A. J. Pritchard
K1013/17
1918
Appointment of 2nd lieutenant A. J. Pritchard
K1013/17.
- 146 -
1918
Letter [Michigan, U.S.A.] describing the announcement of the end of the
war in
D5435/6/3
1918
Visit of a soldier serving in France to his parish school
P291 SC4
1918
Certificate of army medical discharge board: Frederick W Fisher
D6633/2/1
c.1918
References to the progress of the War
P84 VE 2/1
1918-19
Record of service as volunteer
D4467/10
c.1918-19
Message with news of an individual's demobilisation
D3558/57
Post-1918
Certificate of gratitude presented to Staff Sergeant Edward Vaughan
Middleton by the City of Gloucester
D4674/5
1919
Mention in dispatches for Sergeant P. Marfell, 16th Squadron Machine
Gun Corps
D4920/
2/2/2/43
1919
News cuttings referring to the award of an M.C. to Alfred Franklin Dean
Darlington
D5590/1
1919
Copy of news cutting referring to the presentation of a gift of £100 to F G
Miles V.C.
D5724/1/1
1919
Demobilisation document; shoulder and cap badges (Colin Kendall
Pearson)
D3558/132
1919
Demobilisation certificate: George Hyatt, RGH
D4920/2/2/3/6/
6
1919
Soldier's demobilisation account
D5132/2
1919
Soldiers' demobilisation account
D3471/118
c.1919
Certificate of gratitude presented by the city of Gloucester for wartime
services to S/Sgt Edward Vaughan Middleton
D4674/5
1926
Letter from Rev. Bubb, Coln St. Denys, asking for details of Mr. Miles,
“killed in World War I”
D5491/62
1930
A history of the 2/5th Battalion, 1914-18, compiled from letters, diaries and
reminiscences
D2431/1-4
n.d.
Typescript, The Battle of Katia, 1916
MI 35
n.d.
Citation of gallantry: A.E. Sotheron Estcourt
D1571/F886
1961
Order of service for Katia Day
D4920/2/5/67
1962
Frank Schofield, a member of the “Old Contemptibles” talking on tape
about the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Mons
D6112
[tape 22/8]
1966
Article in the Cheltenham Chronicle & Gloucestershire Graphic about the
Battle of Katia
D4920/2/2/225
1972
Katia Day Service: typescript address by the Rev. P.G. Osborn
MI 36
1975
Katia Day Service: news cuttings
D4920/
2/2/3/6/9
1991
An account of the “last classic cavalry charge”, Huj, Palestine, 8 November
1917 – from Regimental Journal of the Queen’s Own Mercian Yeomanry
D4920/
2/2/2/32
- 147 -
1999-2000
Major D. Barrington-Browne’s correspondence concerning Trooper H G
Collins of A Squadron, a survivor of Katia, 1916
D4920/3/5/14
Prisoners of War
c.1914-1916-
Papers concerning claim against the government for damage to Marlwood
Grange, used by German prisoners of war
D1606 Box 21
Bundle 1
1916-1919
Diary of Squadron Sergeant-Major George Hyatt, RGH, who was captured
at the Battle of Katia
D4920/8/15/3
(1916)-1919
War Diary, with a personal account of the Battle of Katia and experiences
as a P.O.W. - includes lists of those killed, wounded, sick and missing
D4920/1/2/1
1916-20
Documents and photographs of members of the RGH who were taken
prisoner by the Turks at Katia, 1916. Includes list of prisoners and where
held, 1916; samples of letters and Red Cross cards; copy of the Angora
News.
D4920/2/2/2/30
1917
List of items permitted to be sent to POWs; government circular about
missing servicemen; letters about missing soldiers and sailors
D2218/1/5
1917-31
Papers concerning the transfer of the Gloucestershire POWs Fund to the
Gloucestershire Branch of the British Legion
CC/V5/2
1918
List of all Prisoner of War Camps in England, Wales & Scotland
(photocopy of Q/Y 2/2/7)
MI 63
1918
Burials of four German prisoners of war, died from flu, at Toddington
Camp, 1918
P335 IN 1/7
1919
Studio portrait of Turkish officer with English prisoners, including Squadron
Sergeant George Hyatt, RGH
D4920/2/2/3/6/5
1999-2000
Major D. Barrington-Browne’s correspondence concerning Squadron
Quartermaster Sergeant Cross, taken prisoner by the Turks
D4920/3/5/11
Lists and memorials
Gloucestershire Archive holdings include extensive material relating to war memorials,
especially amongst the parish records. There are the records of the committees that were
formed to raise money for the memorials, including minutes and accounts. Typically, there
will be lists of names, both Rolls of Honour of the fallen and sometimes lists of all those who
served. Photographs, drawings and plans may have survived of the memorials themselves
and where the Church of England is involved, there is likely to be a faculty. Finally, there may
be a record of the service of dedication. Very detailed research notes have been deposited
relating to men from Moreton-in-Marsh and Batsford who were killed in the War or died from
the effects of war within a few years of its conclusion [D8736].
Gloucestershire: general
1914-18
Memorial register
D6919/9/5
- 148 -
1914-18
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Photograph of Roll of
Honour on mess room wall
D4791/19/59
1914-1915
The Gloucester Journal: wartime information and coverage. “Gloucester’s
Roll of Honour”, 12 September 1914; a complete active service roll for the
RGH
D4920/2/2/2/1
1915
Masons among the 5th Wiltshire Regiment who attended the meetings of
the Cotteswold Masonic Lodge, Cirencester
D8077/1/4
1915-18
List of Gloucestershire County Council officers in service
CC/W1916A
1916
List of Gloucestershire County Council employees on service
CC/W1916A
1917
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Sports Committee
photograph in front of a board displayed names of employees who had
joined or rejoined the colours
D4791/17/3
p.202
1919-20
Gloucestershire County Council: war memorial committee papers
TC10
1919-34
Director of Forestry for England: Forest of Dean. Correspondence and
papers concerning contributions for war memorials
D9096/F3/1484
1920
Abortive attempt to raise funds for the county memorial
GMS/13
1916
Gloucestershire County Council: War memorial papers
CX2
c.1920
Roll of honour commemorating men from the office and works of John
Bellows of Gloucester “who served their King & Country in the Great war”
D9517
c.1920-50
Photographs of memorials to both World Wars built by H.H. Martyn & Co.,
Cheltenham
D6345/2/1
c.1920-50
Papers relating to war memorials and cemeteries
D634/1/1/2/1
1921
Papers regarding dedication of war memorial to Old Cryptians
D9791/1/1
1922
Cuttings from the Gloucester Journal about unveiling of the RGH war
memorial in Gloucester
D8815/3/3
1930
Commonwealth War Graves Register of Graves in Gloucestershire
CMS/5
1999-2000
Lists of RGH killed in action and their war cemeteries
D4920/3/5/12
Alphabetical by parish [some are out-county]
It is worth checking the catalogues of all parishes for further references.
Acton Turville
Memorial faculty 1920
P4 CW 3/1
Alvington
Papers concerning the war service of parishioners, c.1915
P12 SP 2
Alvington
Register recording the service careers of parishioner, 1919
P12 SP 1
Alvington
Memorial faculty, 1919
P12 CW 3/6
Ampney
St. Peter
Ashleworth
Memorial faculty, 1919
P17 CW 3/4
Memorial faculty, 1919
P20 CW 3/4
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Axminster
(Devon)
Bagendon
Photograph of War memorial and Church
D2659/27/53/24
Faculty for memorial inscription on window, 1925
P33 CW 3/1
Badgeworth
Memorial, 1914-18
P31 CW 3/6
Barnwood
Plan, section & elevations of proposed memorial lych gate, 1921
D7942/363
Bath (Somerset)
Article in the Bath Herald about the dedication of the Bath war
memorial
D2659/27/53/11
Batsford
Research notes including detailed lists and personal papers relating to
those who died in or following the war, 2000
D8736/1-4
Berkeley
Typed list of names on memorial (1914-45), with details of sacristan
called up for military service, 1916 and reference to the wounded
coming over from France, 1916
P42
CW 3/21, 23,
25
Berkeley
Memorial faculty, 1920
P42 CW 3/13
Berkeley
Order of service, dedication of memorial bells, 1921
P42 CW 3/15
Berkeley
Memorial plaque to Lieutenant John Atherton Parnell Parnell in the
parish church, 1925
P42 CW 2/12
Bishops Cleeve
Postcard view including memorial cross, c.1920
GPS 46/56
Bishops Cleeve
War memorial committee minutes c.1935
P46 SP 1/1
Blakeney
Key to shields in memorial window c.1920
P50 CW 3/10
Blockley
Roll of honour 1915
P52 MI 9
Blockley
Roll of honour (1914-18)
D3471/302
Blockley
Correspondence and related papers concerning the memorial 1924
P52 CW 3/11
Bourton-on-theHill
Bourton-on-theHill
Bourton-on-theHill
Incumbent's file including memorial 1919-22
P54 IN 4/6
New memorial 1920
P54 VE 2/1
Copy of the Evesham Journal relating to the unveiling of the memorial,
1922
D8736/1/3
Bream
Retrieving Wenty’s Sturty Bird: The Story of Bream Cenotaph 19212001 [I. Hendy, 2001]
ROL E5
Brimscombe
Memorial faculty 1919
P59 CW 3/7
Brimscombe
Correspondence the erection of a memorial n.d.
P59 CW 4/2
Brockworth
Reference to memorials 1919-20
P62 OV 2/2
Bromsberrow
Mr R L Staynor’s research file on the memorial, 1921
D7547/3/14
Brookthorpe
Memorial subscriptions, bill, correspondence 1922-23
P64 CW 3/2
Brookthorpe
Memorial description 1987
P64 CW 3/17
Cam
List of war dead c.1919
P69 MI 1
Cam
Parish Council minutes concerning memorial 1919
P69a PC 1/3
- 150 -
Cam
Memorial, 1921
S69/3/1/2
Chaceley
Memorial faculty 1921
P72 CW 3/4
Chalford
References to the progress of the war, deaths of members on active
service, roll of honour, memorial service and unveiling of memorial
tablet, Chalford Baptist Tabernacle, 1914-21
D7188/3/2-3
Chalford
Postcard view of memorial
GPS 73/110
Charfield
Details of former occupation and present military service given in
baptism register 1914-18
P74 IN 1/6
Charlton Kings
Photograph of memorial, 1920
GPS 76/9
Charlton Kings
List of names on memorial c.1948
DA3/134/1
Charlton Kings
Maintenance of war graves 1921
DA3/154/3/7
Charlton Kings
Roll of Honour of former members of the Charlton Kings Baptist
Sunday School who fought in the War, c.1920
D2765/12
Chedworth
Notes on memorial n.d.
P77 CW 3/6
Cheltenham
Minutes of meetings of the committee organising a memorial to old
boys killed in the war, with related correspondence and cuttings
[Cheltenham St. Mary] 1920-21
P78/1 SC 1/8/2
Cheltenham
Memorial to the old boys of Cheltenham Parish Church School killed in
the War 1921
P78/1 SC 1/8/3
Cheltenham
War memorial committee [Cheltenham All Saints] 1918-20
P78/2 SP 1/3
Cheltenham
Drawings for memorial chapel [Cheltenham St. Mary] 1919
P78/1 CW 3/14
Cheltenham
Memorial faculty [Cheltenham All Saints] 1920
P78/2 CW 3/9/4
Cheltenham
Records relating to the placing of the memorial to the 10th Battalion of
the Gloucestershire Regiment [Cheltenham Christ Church] 1921-32
P78/3 CW 3/4
Cheltenham
Memorial faculty and related papers [Cheltenham St. Mark] 1919-21
P78/8 CW 3/3
Cheltenham
War memorial committee minutes [Cheltenham Borough] 1919-21
CBR C2/3/9
Cheltenham
Papers of bicentenary committee for Cheltenham Parish Baptist School
including correspondence regarding Great War memorial 1920-21
P78/1
SC 1/8/2-3
Cheltenham
Form of dedication service for memorial, with list of names
[Cheltenham St. Paul] 1920
P78/10
IN 4/5/4
Cheltenham
Memorial faculty [Cheltenham St. Peter] 1920
P78/11 CW 3/7
Cheltenham
Architectural drawings and plans [Cheltenham St. Peter] 1918
D2970/1/177
Cheltenham
War memorial committee minutes [Cheltenham St. Peter] 1920-34
P78/11 SP 1/1
Cheltenham
War memorial committee accounts and correspondence [Cheltenham
St. Peter] 1919-34
P78/11 SP 1/2
Cheltenham
War memorial committee minutes [Cheltenham St. Stephen] 1918-20
P78/12 SP 1/1
Cheltenham
Photographs of memorials, c.1921
GPS 78/137-38
- 151 -
Cherington
Memorial faculty 1919
P79 CW 3/1/1
Chipping
Campden
Chipping
Campden
Chipping
Sodbury
Churcham
War memorial committee minutes, 1919
D5347/5/2
Photograph of memorial, 1921
GPS 81/203
Roll of Honour for Baptist Church
D6717/2/4
P83 CW 3/2
Churchdown
Design for proposed war memorial prayer desk Birdwood mission room
1919
Arrangements for war graves 1923
Clearwell
Memorial faculties 1921
P88 CW 3/5
Coaley
Cutting concerning the erection of a memorial, with plan c.1920
P90 CW 3/4
Coates
Memorial faculty 1933
P92 CW 3/2
Coleford
Roll of honour, Coleford Congregational Church, 1917
D5533/6/6
Coleford
Roll of honour and memorial [Coleford St. John, parish church] 1920
P93/1 CW 3/1/3
Coleford
Roll of honour [Coleford St. John, parish church] 1920
P93/1 SP 1/1
Coleford
Photographs of memorial reredos [Coleford St. John, parish church]
n.d.
D7942/45
Corse
Memorial faculty 1920
P101 CW 3/1
Cranham
Letters, vouchers, etc. relating to lych gate memorial 1920-21
P103 CW 3/5
Didmarton
Memorial committee minutes, 1919-21; service sheet and postcard of
memorial dedication, 1921
P114/1 CW 3/4
Driffield
Newspaper account of memorial dedication service [Harnhill with
Driffield] c.1918
P120 MI 6
Dursley
Sketch of memorial rood screen 1917
P124 CW 3/15
Dursley
Details of the peacetime occupations of service personnel, from the
marriage register, Dursley Tabernacle, 1917-18
D4733/1/3
Dymock
Notes on memorial 1920-21
P125 MI 11
Dymock
Memorial window 1920
P125 VE 2/4
Eastington
Service for dedication of the memorial book 1921
P127 IN 4/1
Edge
Roll of honour c1918
P132 CW 4/2
Edge
Entries in Vestry records concerning the memorial 1919
P132 VE 2/3
Elkstone
Memorial 1919
P135 IN 4/9/1
Elmore
Programme for the dedication of the memorial 1921
P136 IN 1/12
Fairford
Memorial 1919-20
P141 CW 3/16
Fairford
Agreements concerning the upkeep of war graves 1927-70
P141 CW 3/17
Farmington
Memorial faculty 1923
P143 CW 3/1
Frampton-onSevern
Contributors to memorial 1919-20
P149a PC 35/1
- 152 -
P84 VE 3/2
Frampton
Mansell
Gloucester
Memorial at St. Luke’s 1996
P282 CW 3/24
Forms of service for memorial dedication, 1925
D4183/2/13
Gloucester
Form of service for dedication of Gloucester’s war memorial, 1933
D5332/6
Gloucester
Plans and photocopy photograph of memorial [Gloucester St.
Catherine] 1921
P154/7
CW 3/10/16
Gloucester
Memorial fund accounts and sale of work [Gloucester St. James] 191735
P154/8 CW 2/2
Gloucester
Memorial subscriptions ledger [Gloucester St. Mark] 1899-1922
P154/10
CW 2/1
Gloucester
Memorial subscriptions book [Gloucester St. Mary de Crypt] 1920
P154/11
CW 3/8
Gloucester
Papers regarding the war memorial screen [Gloucester St. Mary de
Crypt] 1919-20. Include elevation & section, sketches and specification
D7942/
129, 133, 134
Gloucester
Memorial [Gloucester St. Michael] 1920
P154/14
CW 3/7
Gloucester
Memorial faculty [Gloucester St. Paul] 1919
P154/17
CW 3/5
Gloucester
Memorial dedication [Gloucester St. Paul] 1919
P154/17
MI 1, 10, 12
Gloucester
Photograph of Gunner G.W. Ryland's tombstone (d. 1917) [Gloucester
St. Paul] c1980s
P154/17 MI 23
Gloucester
Roll of honour [Gloucester St. Paul] n.d.
P154/17 MI 25
Gloucester
Roll of honour [Gloucester St. Stephen] n.d.
P154/18 IN 4/1
Gloucester
Drawing of proposed memorial window [Gloucester St. Barnabas]
c.1928
P154/19
CW 4/1
Gloucester
Draft conditions of competition for proposed memorial 1920
GBR L6/7/24
Gloucester
List of war graves 1914-22
GBR L4/4/5
Gloucester
Correspondence concerning the right of burial in perpetuity in graves in
war plot, Gloucester Cemetery
GBR L6/23
Box 606
Gloucester
Papers concerning unveiling of memorial 1923
GBR L6/23
Box 605
Gloucester
Souvenir of the opening of the Y.M.C.A. war memorial, The Ram,
Southgate Street, Gloucester 1920
GMS 134
Gloucester
Memorials to two Gloucester soldiers 1999
GBR F8/4/1, 3
Hardwicke
Roll of honour, Hardwicke (with Haresfield and Quedgeley) 1914-18
D3549/27/5/22
Haresfield
Roll of honour, Haresfield (with Hardwicke and Quedgeley) 1914-18
D3549/27/5/22
Harnhill
Newspaper account of memorial dedication service [Harnhill-withDriffield] c.1918)
P120 MI 6
Hatherop
Memorial 1921
P169 VE 2/1
- 153 -
Hartpury
Conveyance of memorial site and papers concerning the dedication
service 1920
P165a
PC 1/1, 6/1
Hempsted
Correspondence concerning war graves 1921
P173 CW 3/7
Highnam
Memorial 1920-42
P176 CW 2/2
Hillesley
Memorial: list of subscribers, fund accounts, sculptor's bill 1920,
photographs 1993 [Hillesley and Tresham]
P178a
PC 35/1, 2
Hucclecote
Correspondence concerning the maintenance of a war grave 1938
P183 CW 3/6
Hucclecote
List of parishioners in the armed forces 1915
P183a PC 4/8
Icomb
Memorial faculty 1921
P185 CW 3/1
Kempsford
Memorial faculty 1920
P189 CW 3/2/1
Kings Stanley
War graves commission 1939
P190 VE 2/7
Leckhampton
Faculty and correspondence concerning memorial chapel
[Leckhampton St. Peter] 1920
P198/1
CW 3/14
Leckhampton
Memorial and peace celebration committee minutes, correspondence
and vouchers [Leckhampton St. Peter] 1914-21
P198/1
SP 2/1-2
Leckhampton
Memorial chapel faculty [Leckhampton St. Philip and James] 1927
P198/2
CW 3/24
The Leigh
Memorial faculty and papers, 1922
P199 CW 3/12
Leonard Stanley
War memorial cross committee minutes 1918-19
P201 SP 1
Longhope
Correspondence concerning the upkeep of the grave of Private G.C.
Payne 1927
P206 CW 3/6
Lower Cam
Memorial account 1921
P385 CW 2/1
Lower Cam
Memorial 1919
P385 VE 2/1
Lower Slaughter
Memorial faculty 1920
P296 CW 3/2
Lydbrook
Memorial faculty 1921
P208 CW 3/3
Lydney
Receipt, design and correspondence concerning memorial window,
memorial and lych gate 1921
P209 CW 3/5
Lydney
Order of service for dedication of the war memorial, 1935
D5627/2/4
Lydney
List of names on Lydney memorial (1994)
PA 209/20
Maiseyhampton
Memorial faculties 1923-51
P211/1 CW 3/4
Marshfield
Correspondence concerning parish and county memorials 1936-91
P213a PC 35/1
Marshfield
Incumbent's file with material on War Graves Commission 1927-28
P213 IN 4/23
Marshfield
Correspondence concerning parish and county memorials, 1936-91
P213a PC 35/1
Marston Maisey
Maintenance of war grave; papers concerning memorials 1930-47
P211/2 CW 3/3
Matson
War memorial committee minutes, correspondence and accounts
1919-22
P215 VE 2/9
- 154 -
Matson
Memorial faculty 1920
P215 CW 3/2
Mickleton
Memorial faculties 1920-22
P216 CW 3/2
Mickleton
War memorials committee collecting book and vouchers 1920-21
P216 SP 2
Minchinhampton
Memorial faculty 1932
P217 CW 3/8
Minchinhampton
Drawing of memorial cross and order of dedication service 1920
P217 MI 9
Minsterworth
Programme for opening of the Village Hall and dedication of the war
memorial, 1928
D8732
(acc 9970)
Moreton-inMarsh
Moreton-inMarsh
Correspondence from War Graves Commission 1930-51
P221a PC 31/5
Research notes including detailed lists and personal papers relating to
those who died in or following the war, 2000
D8736/1-4
North Cerney
Memorial fund, subscription list c.1923
P70 CW 3/29
Nailsworth
Dedication of memorial 1920
P223 IN 1/22
Nailsworth
Building committee minutes including references to chancel as
memorial 1918
P223 CW 3/4
Nailsworth
Faculty for war memorial cross 1920
P223 CW 3/18
Nailsworth
P223 VE 2/1, 3
Naunton
Proposals for chancel as memorial, 1918; references to memorial
cross, 1920
War memorial fund accounts 1921
Newland
Memorial faculty 1920
P227 CW 3/1
North Cerney
Memorial, dedication service 1929
P70 IN 4/13
North Cerney
Faculty, inscription of the names of the fallen 1929
P70 CW 3/51
North Nibley
Postcard showing North Nibley memorial, 1925
P42 IN 3/8
Northleach
Memorial faculty 1920
P231 CW 3/12
Ozleworth
Memorial faculty 1919
P243 CW 3/3
Painswick
Memorial correspondence and plans 1920-21
D2415/5
Painswick
Brochure for the opening of the memorial, Painswick, 1921
D5023/4/5
Paxford
List of names on the war memorial and copy of the Evesham Journal
relating to its unveiling, 1920
D8736/3
Pitchcombe
Reference to memorials 1919
P250 VE 2/2
Poulton
Special accounts, including memorial 1925-30
P252 CW 2/3
Quedgeley
Roll of honour, Quedgeley (with Hardwicke and Haresfield) 1914-18
D3549/27/5/22
Quedgeley
Memorial faculty 1920
P260 CW 3/2
Rangeworthy
Statement of accounts for memorial 1922-33
P264 CW 2/2
Rangeworthy
Faculties, memorial windows 1918-20
P264
CW 3/2/2, 3/9
- 155 -
P224 CW 2/4
Rendcomb
Roll of parishioners' war service 1914-19
P267 VE 2/2
Great Rissington
Memorial 1921
P268 VE 2/1
Ruscombe
Tenders for renovation work on memorial [Whiteshill and Ruscombe]
1930-31
P363a PC 35/1
St. Briavels
Memorial faculty 1919
P278 CW 3/2
Saintbury
Memorial faculty 1920
P279 CW 3/1
Sandhurst
List of men serving in the war n.d.
P281 MI 1
Selsley
Memorial: petition for faculty, correspondence, estimates and sketches
1919-22
P284 CW 3/6
Sherborne
Memorial 1919-25
D678/1 E7/1-15
Shipton Moyne
Memorial faculty 1920
P291 CW 3/1/4
Shurdington
Memorial faculty 1919
P292 CW 3/2
Slimbridge
Sketches concerning memorial, nd.; order of dedication service, 1921;
correspondence concerning maintenance of war graves, 1927
P298 CW 3/14
Snowshill
Memorial: accounts, subscriptions lists, order of dedication service
1923
P299 CW 3/2
Somerford
Keynes
Correspondence and agreement concerning maintenance of war
graves 1927
P303 IN 3/9
Standish
Faculty for memorial cross and tablet 1920
P305 CW 3/6
Stanway
Photograph of memorial, post 1918
GPS 308/15
Stone
Roll of honour 1918
P315 VE 3/3
Stonehouse
“Lest We Forget”, a book of remembrance for Stonehouse compiled by
Kathleen Lady Fetherston 1914-18
PA 316/14
Stonehouse
Memorial trust deed 1920
P316a
PC 3/2, 6/2
Stonehouse
Photograph of Book of Remembrance, Stonehouse, n.d.
D8811
Stow-on-theWold
Stow-on-theWold
Stratton
List of men called up n.d.
P317 IN 1/19
Press cuttings book (includes Great War) 1834-1915
P317 MI 2/1
Minutes of memorial committee 1917-18
P319a PC 35/1
Stretton-onFosse
(Warwickshire)
List of names on the war memorial
D8736/1/3
Stroud
War memorial and peace commemoration committee, Bedford Street
Congregational Church, Stroud 1919-21
D2537/2/16
Stroud
Roll of Honour, 1914-18: Stroud Conservative Benefit Society, c.1920
D5023/4/4
Stroud
List of former scouts from the Stroud district serving in the war, 1919
D5794/1/1
Stroud
Rolls of honour of Stroud-based friendly society, c.1919
D8004/1/16/4, 5
- 156 -
Stroud
DA16/209/25
Taynton]
Correspondence with the War Graves Commission with list of those
buried c.1921-26
Copy of names on memorial [1919]
Taynton
Memorial faculty 1919
P326 CW 3/5
Taynton
Memorial 1919
P326 VE 2/1
Tenbury Wells
Garden of remembrance, Tenbury Wells, Herefordshire (uncatalogued)
n.d.
D5587/1/128/6
Tewkesbury
List of war dead in parochial magazine [Tewkesbury St. Mary] 1920
P329/1 IN 4/2/1
Tewkesbury
Roll of honour, ex-pupils of Tewkesbury Grammar School 1914-18
TBR D52/3
Thornbury
Extension and maintenance of war graves 1928-40
P330a
PC 31/12
Tibberton
Roll of honour c.1918
P332 MI 2
Tidenham
Memorial faculties including for St. Luke's 1920-21
P333/1 CW 3/2
Toddington
Burials of four German prisoners of war, died from flu, at Toddington
Camp 1918
P335 IN 1/7
Todenham
Memorial faculty 1920-21
P336 CW 3/1
Todenham
List of names on the war memorial
D8736/1/3
Tresham
Memorial: list of subscribers, fund accounts, sculptor's bill 1920,
photographs 1993 [Hillesley and Tresham]
P178a
PC 35/1, 2
Tuffley
Memorial subscriptions list, c.1923
P154/19
CW 3/7
Twigworth
Memorial faculty 1920
P342 CW 3/7
Twyning
Dedication of village cross and memorial tablet 1920
P343 IN 4/1
Uley
Memorial faculty 1920
P345 CW 3/5
Upper Swell
Memorial faculty 1923
P323 CW 3/2
Upton St.
Leonards
Memorial 1919
P347b
PC 35/1-2
Viney Hill
Memorial window at All Saints 1919-20
P348 VE 2/1
Westbury-onSevern
Westcote
Sketches and notes concerning memorial 1929-36
P354 IN 4/3
Plans, elevations drawings (1909-27)
D3893/12/4
Whaddon
Memorial faculty 1920
P361 CW 2/2
Whiteshill
Tenders for renovation work on memorial [Whiteshill and Ruscombe]
1930-31
P363a PC 35/1
Whitminster
Memorial: subscriptions, accounts, design, photographs, etc. 1919-23
P362a PC 35/1
Wickwar
List of men who served, with regiments [1918]
P366 IN 1/18
Wickwar
Memorial faculty 1920
P366 CW 3/2
- 157 -
P326 CW 3/4
Willersley
Memorial plans 1919
P367 CW 3/1
Winchcombe
Letters from Ernest Gimson about proposed war memorial including
sketch
D2218/1/8
Woodchester
Scrapbook relating to erection of wayside cross at Woodchester in
memory of those killed in the War, including photographs and press
cuttings, 1916-18
D6145/3/3
Woolaston
Sketch plan of war memorial
P12 CW 3/8
Yorkley
Director of Forestry for England: Forest of Dean. Correspondence &
papers concerning the war memorial and recreation ground, 1919-29
D9096/F3/1442
Out-County: general
Worksop,
Nottinghamshire
List of Old Cuthbertians serving in World War I, 1924
D4432/7/5
Photographs and illustrations
1909-19
Photograph album, including postcards sent by servicemen to the
Reverend H.E. Hadow [Gloucester St. Paul’s]
P154/17 MI 10
c.1912-20s
Cadet corps of Chipping Campden Grammar School pupils
D5390
1914
Cheltenham Volunteer Force
NS 50
c.1914
23rd Battalion, Royal Field Artillery, mounted for parade, Boyton
D3574/6
c.1914
Captain T E Sotheron Estcourt in uniform
D1571/F876
1914-15
Photographs of Belgian refugees at Yate (uncatalogued)
D6822/110
1914-15
Photograph album of RGH in Egypt and at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli
D4920/2/2/3/2/2
c.1914-15
2nd Lieutenant C.W. Codrington on his own and with his regiment
D5571
1914-18
Photograph of soldiers, aircraft and tank, Belgium
D4693/16
1914-18
RGH troopers during the First World War, including Patcham camp and
photographs showing nurses
D4920/2/2/2/14
1914-18
RGH in Egypt and Palestine (small album and loose photographs)
D4920/2/2/2/15
1914-18
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: photographs of War
Office limber wagons
D4791/19/3
1914-18
Staff, patients and buildings at the V.A.D. Red Cross Hospital at Standish
and at Bristol General Hospital
D5425/37/2
c.1914-18
A.A. Payne, estate agent of Stroud, in soldier's uniform
D1405/18/3
c.1914-18
Ambulance unit outside Aust School with young men in military uniform
D4764/4/18
c.1914-18
Group of wounded at the Red Cross Hospital, Pontyclun, Glamorgan
D5307/56
- 158 -
c.1914-18
Gas trenches used for training by U.S. troops; wounded soldiers in
convalescent home, Isle of Wight
TBR D56/4
c.1914-18
Formal group photograph of the Tewkesbury Local Defence Volunteers
TBR E63
c.1914-18
Soldiers of 348 Company transporting hay at Bourton-on-the-Water
GPS 55/58
c.1914-18
Soldiers at camp
GPS 613/16-24
c.1914-18
Soldiers and nurses, and grave of C A G Rutter, killed at Gallipoli, 1915
D4432/7/1
c.1914-18
Photograph of young woman in army nurse’s uniform with medal on dress
[from amongst records of St. George’s Association, established in London
in 1885 to rescue wayward girls]
D7875/3/3
(1914-18)
Photograph album showing bomb damage in Arras, France
D4920/2/2/3/2/3
1914-19
Various illustrations of the War on the home front and overseas included in
scrapbooks compiled by Mr. F.E. Cardwell
D4180/1-4
c.1914-19
Local (Lydney) men who died in or shortly after the War
D5724/1/2
1915
Churchdown Volunteers and the Churchdown platoon of the Glos.
Volunteer Regiment
D3398/2/2/21
1915
Postcard showing RGH lines at Alexandria before leaving Egypt for the
Dardanelles
D4920/2/2/2/19
1915
Lieutenant Colonel Calvert, officer commanding 3rd line, on horseback
D4920/2/2/2/20
1915
Montage of photographs showing the Imperial Yeomanry on active service
with the Mediterranean Expedition force [from Cheltenham Chronicle &
Gloucestershire Graphic
D4920/2/2/2/17
c.1915
Officer Training Unit (probably not Glos.)
D5724/6/3
1915-19
Soldiers at the Red Cross Hospital, Leckhampton Court
D8831/4/3-5
c.1915c.1925
H H Martyn & Company, Cheltenham: propeller manufacture, workshops
and employees
D5922/3/6/2
1916
Valentine card with sketch of Australian soldier
D4764/7/7
1916
Military funeral at Tormarton
GPS 337/3
1916
494 Royal Army Service Corps at Chipping Sodbury
D6822/110
1916
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: War Office [Ordnance
Dept. RA] – general service wagon
D5107/5
c.1916
Corporal A.G. Roberts in uniform
D4761/12
c.1916
Convalescing soldiers and Red Cross nurses, possibly at Staverton
Vicarage
P311 MI 23
[1916]
Reginald P. Guest, (served with RGH in Egypt, 1916-1919), on horseback,
with letter containing biographical details
D4920/2/2/2/26
c.1916
Sergeant H.G. Peacey, mounted (as a corporal, in battle dress) on
“Howard”, prior to his death at the Battle of Katia
D4920/2/2/2/27
c.1916
Corporal W.J. Smith, farrier, on horseback
D4920/2/2/2/28
- 159 -
1916-17
Informal shots of RGH in Egypt and Palestine
D4920/2/2/2/29
1916-20
Photographs of members of the RGH who were taken prisoner by the
Turks at Katia, 1916, including celebration lunch at the Guildhall,
Gloucester, given for returned POWs
D4920/2/2/2/30
1917
Guns captured at Huj by the RGH
D4920/2/2/3/9/3
1917
Staff and soldier patients outside Naunton Park Hospital, Cheltenham
D5435/6/17
1917
Quedgeley munitions workers on an outing
GPS 260/37
1917
R A Lister & Co. of Dursley: photographs of munitions girls
D7405/1/2/3
c.1917
Memorial photograph of Private S Page, Welsh Guards [killed 1917]
D3979/12
1917-19
Peace celebrations, Hardwicke, 1919; senior officers' course, Aldershot,
Hampshire, 1917 (with notes)
D3549/
33/2/3, 33/4/6
1918
Nurses and wounded soldiers outside Lydney Hospital
D5627/4/3
1918
Officers of the 181st Brigade R.F.A. 40th Divisional Artillery, France
D3979/13
1918
Peace celebrations, Miserden
GPS 219/36
1918
C K Pearson in uniform
D3358/131
1918
Concrete barges built at Hempsted and used to take munitions from Dover
to Calais
D4325/1-5
c.1918
Postcard of memorial, Prestbury
GPS 254/13
c.1918-19
Sergeant Colin Kendall Pearson in uniform
D3558/57
n.d.
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: photographs of women
at work on the factory floor
D4791/17/3
p.205-207
1919
Studio portrait of Turkish officer with English prisoners, including Squadron
Sergeant George Hyatt, RGH
D4920/2/2/3/6/5
1919
City of Bristol Military Band playing at the Dursley peace celebrations
1919
Olveston peace celebrations, Oldown Hill
D2078
Box 47/1
D2604/
2/38, 78, 86
1919
Cainscross and Ebley Peace Celebrations Committee
D3362/5
(1919)
RGH men arriving home from Palestine
D4920/
2/2/2/39-41
1919-20
Postcard of memorial for Southam and Bishops Cleeve
GPS 396/11
c.1920
Children with cannon near Chipping Campden church
GPS 81/56
c.1920
Leonard Stanley memorial
GPS 201/40
1920-36
Photographs taken in France and Belgium during visits by Arthur Barwick
Lloyd Baker to the Western Front
D3549/33/2/5/2
1923
Photograph of painting of Captain Elidyr Herbert in action at Huj, 8
November 1917
D4920/2/2/2/33
n.d.
Servicemen from the Forest of Dean who died in or shortly after the war
D5724/1/3
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c.1928
Minchinhampton memorial
GPS 217/119
1966
RGH Katia parade at Gloucester Cathedral
D4920/2/5/44
1970
Memorial, Wick Rissington
D3867/IV/47
c.1980s
Tombstone, Gunner G.W. Ryland, killed 1917
P154/17 MI 23
Further reading and Record Office Library
1914
Three Days in France 28-31 August 1914, by William Bellows
D4540/18
c.1914
The Angels at Mons or Does God Intervene by F.H.J. Brooke
P20 IN 4/4
1916
Le Pape et La Guerre, 1915-16; Fothergill lectures on historic buildings in
the Western war zone, 1916
D177 Box 71
1917
A Carnet de Route 1917 by William Bellows
D4540/19
1920
The first Buckinghamshire battalion, 1914-1919, by P.L. Wright
ROL D5
1984
Rural life in England in the First World War by Pamela Horn
ROL D3
1991
The location of British Army records, 1914-1918 by Norman Holding
ROL H17
1992
Wartime letters of a Westbury squire, selected by Barbara Owen
PA 354/10
1992
Anzacs over England by David Goodland and Alan Vaughan
ROL F4/LE
2001
Army Service records of the First World War by William S Spencer
ROL H17
2002
The First World War: The essential Guide to Sources in the UK National
Archives by I. Beckett
ROL D5
2003
Maisemore Men: Lest We Forget by R. Stayt
PA 2/10/7
2003
Far From His Native Land He Lies: The Story of men from Amberley, Box
and Woodchester who gave their lives by N. Thornicroft
MI 55
Records held elsewhere
The National Archives
Service records for some of the nine million plus men and women who served in the British
armed forces in the Great War are held by the National Archives. The army, which
numbered 730,000 when War broke out, was swelled by the introduction of conscription, so
that over seven million men and women eventually saw service in the army. The survival of
these records is less than 50% due to a Luftwaffe air raid that struck the repository in which
they were held in 1940. The "Burnt Document" series that did survive (WO 363) have been
the subject of a major microfilming project. Arrangement is mainly by surname, for soldiers
who served between 1914 and 1920, and may have been killed in action, discharged on
medical grounds without a pension or demobilised. Another series (WO 364) comprises
documents recovered by the War Office from the Ministry of Pensions and other government
departments after the Second World War. They relate principally to men discharged with
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pensions due to sickness or wounds (1914-1920) and comprise detailed medical and
conduct sheets.
The National Archives also hold War Diaries, Military Maps, and Campaign Medal rolls. Of
particular interest too will be the records of government, cabinet and committees. These
include the minutes, memoranda and files of the War Cabinet, 1916-1919; War Office
records, relating to military planning and including reports on operations; Intelligence papers,
correspondence, summaries of information, files, maps and plans; and Senior commanders’
diaries and papers
The Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum holds various records documenting the
involvement of the Gloucestershire Regiment in the War, as already mentioned in this Guide.
Russia: Post 1917 Revolution – The Civil War
1919
Letter from private soldier serving in Georgia, Russia
Spanish Civil War
D5491/60
1936-39
1936
Diary of E M Blathwayt: includes memoranda on the War, and rise of Hitler
and Mussolini
D2659/
24/31-32
1939
Refugees from the Spanish Civil War at Whiteway Colony near Stroud
[permission of County Archivist needed to access these records]
D5847/1/8
SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945
The Second World War, 1939-1945, began with Hitler's attack on Poland, which prompted
Britain and France to declare War on Nazi Germany. Mussolini then brought Italy into the
War on the German side as France collapsed in the face of the German Bitzkrieg of 1940,
leaving Britain to fight on alone with the support of her Empire. Hitler's attack upon the Soviet
Union in 1941 brought Stalin into the war on the Allied side. The United States joined the
conflict later that year when Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in Hawaii, decimating the
American Pacific fleet.
Hitler enjoyed great initial success, forging a large European empire during the early years of
the conflict. The German army controlled territory from the Atlantic coast of France in the
west to the western part of the Soviet Union in the east, and the German navy through its Uboat offensive threatened to starve Britain into submission. In 1942-43 the tide began to turn
as the German army suffered heavy casualties in the east through the strong Russian
resistance helped by severe winters, and on the southern front through Allied success in
North Africa leading to the invasion of Italy. The D-Day invasion of June 1944 opened up a
second front in the west, after which the days of the Third Reich were very much numbered.
Following the German defeat in April 1945, Japan fought alone. The long and bitter
campaign in the Pacific, Indonesia and Indo-China, during which the Gloucestershire
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Regiment’s 10th battalion served, was brought to an abrupt end by the first and only use in
war of the atomic bomb.
Second World War local records relating to civil defence are extremely varied and
comprehensive, and include the papers of local authority air raid and evacuation committees.
Parish Councils were required to compile a War Book. Each one had an "invasion
committee" and had to set out information and plans in this book following a set pattern.
Details included lists of resources, plans for emergency feeding and shelter of displaced
persons and arrangements to keep essential services in operation. Other records include
those of the Home Guard and documents relating to the billeting of troops, requisitioning of
property and production of food. Some types of Second World War record are similar in
nature to those relating to the Great War - for example, documentation relating to war
memorials.
Records held at Gloucestershire Archives
The Record Office holdings include Gloucestershire County Invasion Committee minutes,
1941-44 [D1260] and various letters concerning wartime service, 1939-45 [D4500 2/3;
D4889/26; D5814; D6633 1/9; D6885]. An interesting archival survival is copies of Luftwaffe
aerial photograph and target maps [D3558/114; D4305]. There are an extensive series of
War Books, detailing the arrangements made in individual parishes to meet the threat of air
attack and invasion.
The County Council records are an important source for matters relating to ARP (Air Raid
Precautions) and Civil Defence, giving detailed information on arrangements made in
preparation for an invasion, including evacuation plans. There is significant material relating
to air raids and incidents, including the blitz on Bath in April 1942 [A/CDa/4]. There are also
lists of evacuees attending Gloucestershire schools [AE/V]. It is also well worth consulting
Parish Council Minutes and school log books for the insight into wartime conditions and
activities that they may show.
The Gloucestershire Collection includes a “Bygones” collection of World War II newspaper
pictures and various newspapers and newspaper cuttings, including The Citizen. These are
an important source for information on air raids and bomb damage. Researchers into World
War II are also advised to consult County Council Minutes and correspondence, for which
see the Record Office catalogues. In 2000 a photographic survey, “Reminders of War along
the Cotswolds”, was made. Transparencies of this are available [D8855] and it may also be
consulted in the searchroom in a database on the Office Intranet.
The archive generated through the BBC’s millennium oral history project, The Century
Speaks, includes many reminiscences relating to the Second World War. Many of these
reflect the impact of war upon the home front, including bombing, work in munitions
factories, and the arrival of American GIs and Polish refugees. Some relate to the fighting in
Europe, including the experience of one lady contributor who had to flee East Germany in
the face of the advancing Russian forces [D8497] – refer to detailed catalogue.
Civil Defence, Air Raid Precautions (ARP), War Damage & Invasion Preparations
c.1930-50
Indexes and summaries, civil defence, etc.
CBR C2/7/3/2
1931-45
News cuttings [Cheltenham]
DA21/124/2
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1935-36
Air raid precautions handbooks, anti-gas precautions and first aid for air raid
casualties
Q/Y 7/22-26
1936
War preparations: Bishops Cleeve
P46a PC 1/3
1936-37
General committee minutes including air raid precautions [Sodbury]
DA33/111/1
1937-45
Air raid precautions [Ashleworth]
P20a PC 1/1
1937
Parish council correspondence concerning the appointment of air raid
wardens [Rudford]
P276 PC 10/1
1937-39
Gloucestershire ARP press cuttings book
P276 PC 10/1
1937, 1939
Civil Defence correspondence
TBR B118
1937-45
ARP/Civil Defence training records, including: instructor’s lecture notes,
information booklets, charts of air raid warning systems and lists of ARP
warden posts
CC/A/CDa2
1937-46
General administrative paper, with press cuttings, on ARP and Civil Defence
provision in the County: including salvage, demolition and clearance, and
evacuation
CC/Da/
V1/1-16,
V2/1-18
1937-c.1946
Emergency Committee, 1937-c.1946, Air Raid Precautions Committee,
1937-1939; Civil Defence Committee, 1939
CBR C2/3/12
1938
Local preparations in case of air and gas attack
D540/F15
1938
Home Office booklet entitled The protection of your home against air raids
1938
Air raid shelter [West Dean]
D5559/2/8
& Q/Y 7/31
DA25/701/6
1938
Air raid precautions
D3893/17/2
1938
Air raid precautions [Whiteshill and Ruscombe]
P363a
PC 10/5
1938
Videotape recording of excerpt from home movie showing digging of air raid
shelter at St. Michael’s Square, Gloucester
D5673
1938
Press cuttings from The Times relating to ARP
CC/A/CDa4/7
1938-39
Gloucestershire. Air Raid Precautions Central Authority: respirator store at
Dudbridge
D1405/2/141
1938, 1940
Gloucestershire ARP schemes
CC/Da/
V10/6
A/CDb 1/1
1938-40
Maps and plans marked up to show ARP areas, HQs, warden posts,
distribution of shelters and evacuees in Gloucestershire. Also, trench
system at Mangotsfield and cleaning station in Stroud Road, Gloucester
CC/Da/P1-6
1938-41
Fire brigade committee minutes [North Cotswold]
DA23/210
1938-41
Correspondence regarding provision of public air raid shelters
CC/Da/V9/1-2
1938-41
Papers relating to respirators
CC/Da/V10/4
1938-42
Air raid precautions structures and system
CBR 701/18
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1938-42
Plans for the construction and fitting of an air raid precautions control centre
and warden's post etc.
CBR 5/5/3/13
1938-42
Papers concerning air raid precautions
GBR
L6/22/6-9
1938-43
Dursley A.R.P. Area (Area 9) correspondence and papers, 1938-42; cash
account, 1939-41
D2078
Boxes 55/2 &
56/1
1938-44
Dursley A.R.P. Area (Area 9): files
K778
1938-44
Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) papers
CCDa/
V10/1-3
1938-44
ARP personnel papers including nominal roll, reports, pamphlets and
circulars
CCDa/V8/1-7
1938-45
Air raid precautions committee minutes [Thornbury]
DA38/118/1-3
1938-45
Administrative files relating to ARP Area 3 [Gloucester], including map and
details of training and wardens’ posts
CC/A/
CDa1/1-7
1938-50
Fire Brigade Sub-Committee, 1938-41, Fire Prevention Sub-Committee,
1941-50
CBR C2/4/9
1939
National Service booklet
D5559/2/11
1939
Defence regulations
Q/Y 7/74
1939
Civil Defence Committee
CBR C2/3/8
1939
The householder's and air raid warden's practical guide to A.R.P. by Sir
Evelyn Thomas
MI 23
1939
Reference to the effects of the black-out on social activities in the minutes of
English Bicknor Village Hall Committee
D9437/1/1
1939
Tenancy agreement, property and garages at Downend called “The
Shrubberies”, with references to the garage being used as an air raid
precautions garage and first aid post [Warmley]
DA39/154/10
1939
Enrolment card in Women's Voluntary Service for ARP: Nellie Baker of
Upton St. Leonards
D7094/12
1939
Membership card issued by the Women's Voluntary Service for Civil
Defence to Mrs. J. Watts
D4889/23
1939
Taynton & Tibberton Village Hall management committee minutes: setting
up of black-out on club nights
D9043/1/1/1
1939
Papers relating to shelters, including brochures
CC/A/CDa/5/1
1939, 1944
Minutes of the Barton Street Working Men’s Club with reference to air raid
precautions and lighting restrictions, and to air raid shelters
D9008/1/3,14
c.1939
Circulars to Watermoor School on air raid precautions and evacuation
SM86/2/3/16
c.1939
Air raid precautions organisation and services
TBR E56
c.1939
Civilian duty respirator record
D3716/6
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1939-40
Correspondence concerning evacuation, lighting, fire brigade, food
production, etc. [Stonehouse]
P316a
PC 10/8
1939-41
Correspondence including wartime information pamphlets [Stonehouse]
1939-42
Air raid precautions/civil defence committee minutes [Cheltenham]
P316a
PC 10/9
DA21/118
1939-42
ARP instructions and advice for the public
CCDa/V2/19
1939-c.1942
Amateur film with footage including the blitz in Exeter
D7008/1
(Prog 5)
1939-43
Cheltenham Division A.R.P. training notes, etc.
D5491/66
1939-43
Directories of ARP schemes for Tewkesbury, Sodbury RD, Kingswood RD,
Mangotsfield RD and Warmley RD; consolidated instructions to Invasion
Committees
DDCa/V11/10
1939-43
German aerial photograph and maps showing bombing targets in
Gloucestershire
D3558/114
1939-44
Air Raid Warden's card, enrolment certificate and receipt for equipment
D3716/3-5
1939-44
A.R.P. warden's report books and papers [Bromsberrow]
P63 MI 3, 4
1939-44
Air raid precautions in Thornbury R.D.C. area
D274/1/1-9
1939-44
Air Raid Warden's log book and papers, Stroud (Dudbridge)
D4693/18-20
1939-44
First aid services and ID cards
D4889/23-25
1939-44
Civil Defence committee minutes [West Dean]
DA25/118
1939-44
Civil Defence committee minutes [Cirencester]
DA22/118
1939-44
A.R.P. warden's log
D6919/10/13
c.1939-45
Police records relating to home defence and special constables
Q/Y
2/15/12;
2/27/1, 2;
5/5/3-5;
6/3/12; 6/5/21;
7/59-61
[1939-45]
Photographs of Police on gas training course
Q/Y 6/1/93
1939-45
Civil Defence, evacuation committee minutes, Lydney
DA28/118/1
1939-45
Air raid victims’ fund, overseas parcels and aid, and welcome home
arrangements arranged by social services committee [Painswick]
P244a MI 14
1939-45
Cuttings on Gloucestershire air raids (uncatalogued)
D6822/104
1939-45
Bisley (Oakridge): A.R.P. Area 8 Sector I: list of inhabitants and map
showing air raid incidents
D780/1-2
1939-45
Bomb reconnaissance course, 1943; police night duty in Gloucester, 1941;
police officers on gas training course, 1939-45; Gloucester civil defence
bomb reconnaissance officers, 1945
Q/Y
2/15/31; 5/5/6;
6/1/93, 95
1939-45
Women’s Royal Voluntary Service [Gloucestershire Branch]: detailed list of
ARP duties; news cuttings discussing work of WRVS in civil defence
D7472/1-2
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1939-45
Papers relating to first aid points in the County
CCDa/
V3/28-29
1939-46
Correspondence, reports, returns and circulars concerning disposal of
unexploded bombs, camouflaging and filling in of bomb craters
CCDa/V4/1-4
c.1939-46
Registers of property hired, requisitioned and war damaged: Gloucester City
GBR L6/13
1939-49
Miscellaneous papers concerning evacuation, fire service, fuel consumption
[Northleach]
DA31/225
1939-51
Gloucester Education Committee circular concerning bomb shelters and
evacuees, 1939; Citizen newspaper, “Victory Issue”, 1945; U.S. Red Cross,
1945; ration books, 1947-51
D4548/17
1939-51
Special committees minutes, including fundraising events [Cam]
P69a PC2/7
1939-62
Air Raid precautions for Gloucestershire
K1854
1940
German aerial photographs, maps and description showing the Gloster
Aircraft Co. works
D4305
1940
Meat depots in the Stroud area
D1405/
10/23, 27, 28,
38
1940
A.R.P. warden's diary, Stonehouse
D8229/1
1940
Licence for use of church hall for services in case of damage to church by
enemy action [Icomb]
P185 IN 2/2
1940
Bombing [Staunton]
P309 IN 1/12
1940
District Valuer recruiting assessors of bomb damage
D1405/2/254
1940
Air raid damage claim, Cooper's Hill Farm, Brockworth
D2299/L51
1940
Cutting from the Gloucestershire Echo concerning the death of Elizabeth
Kearsey as a result of bombing
D5870/4
1940
County daily (bomb) news bulletins
CCDa/V4/6
c.1940
Air raid precautions at Crypt School, Gloucester
D6035/4/5
c.1940
Plan of fire guard areas [Stroud]
DA16 709/7
c.1940
Register of auxiliary firemen [Lydney]
DA28/228
c.1940
Photograph of fire watching volunteers in training
GPS 613/10
1940-41
Correspondence, circulars, rules, forms and memoranda relating to Shire
Hall 1/3 Rest Centre Organisation, including information after 1941 air raids
W2
1940-41
Correspondence concerning the Shire Hall air raid shelter and roof watches
(fire watching)
CCDa/
V10/8-9
c.1940-41
Bomb damage and rebuilding in Clerkenwell, London
D3549/
38/6/13,
38/7/1, 8-10
1940-41
Correspondence concerning the advisability of letting chimes continue in
war time [Dursley]
P124
CW 3/18
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1940-41
Aircraft production and bombing damage to works
D5922/
2/9, 11-14
1940-41
Air Raid Warden's report book for the Kempsford and Whelford district
D4632
1940-41
Air Raid Warden's HQ reports
D9755
1940-41
Bristol: Blitz message forms
A/CDa/4
1940-41
Air Raid shelter plans
CBR
C5/6/2/33/1-3
1940-41
Correspondence relating to awards for gallantry for Civil Defence personnel
CCDa/V11/6
1940-42
Estimates and reports by County architect on war damage to schools
K696/2/66
1940-43
Papers regarding invasion preparations: including action in the event of
airborne or seaborne raids, deterrents against enemy aircraft landing, and
list of possible site, 1940
CCDa/V9/3-9
1940-44
Air raid precautions and civil defence emergency committee minutes [North
Cotswold]
DA23/118/2-3
1940-44
Reports of bomb damage in the County
CCDa/V4/5
1940-44
Correspondence and reports on air raid incidents in Cheltenham, Upper
Slaughter, Painswick, Bristol, Bath, Gloucester, Filton, Hardwicke, London
and the South-East
CCDa/
V4/7-16
1940-44
Air raid precautions accounts
TBR B119
1940-45
Claims for fire and air raid precautions
TBR B120
1940-45
List of mortgaged properties in and around Stroud damaged through enemy
action
D8004/1/7/6
1940-45
Records of high explosives and reports on war damage: Lloyd-Baker
Clerkenwell estate, Middlesex
D3549/38/7/8
1940-46
Papers concerning precautions against air raids at school [Stone]
P315 SC 1/21
1940-46
Detailed records [retained as a sample] of Civil Defence arrangements in
Area I [Gloucester], including domestic shelters, decontamination and lists
of warden posts
CCDa/
V3/1-19
1940-42,
1951
Bomb damage in Cheltenham, 1940-42, shown on map, 1951
D5027/3
1940-49
Clerk's file, war damage [West Dean]
DA25/
134/1/34
1941
Insurance for churches against war damage
P345 CW 4/7
1941
City of Gloucester Civil Defence Emergency Information & Rest Centre
handbook
Q/Y
(acc. 9105)
1941
Correspondence concerning the after effects of air raids
CCDa/V4/18
1941
Photocopy notes and diagram concerning the modification of hand rattles
MS120
1941
Proposal for a photographic record of the church and chapel in case of war
damage [Wotton-under-Edge]
P379 VE 2/3
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1941
Minutes of annual parish meeting concerning the provision of air raid
shelters [Rangeworthy]
P264a PC 1/1
1941
Circular concerning insurance against war damage [Uley]
P345 CW 4/7
1941
War damage insurance [Hill]
P177 VE 2/2
1941
Papers of acceptance for service in the Bristol Police War Reserve
D5559/2/12
1941
Copy schedule of property for war damage insurance [Longhope]
P206
CW 3/11
1941
Papers concerning fire-prevention and fire-watching
GBR L6/13/6
1941
Papers concerning fire-prevention and fire-watching
CCDa/V6/1-5
1941
War damage insurance [Cheltenham All Saints]
P78/2
CW 3/19
1941
Aerial photograph of bombing targets [Stonehouse]
P316a PC 3/8
1941
Photographs and article in The Times of bomb damage at Buckingham
Palace, St. Paul’s Cathedral, City Temple and St. Andrew’s
D2569/
27/53/32
1941
War Weapons Week committee minutes [Stonehouse]
P316a PC 2/5
1941
Printed notice to the civilian population “in the event of invasion”
CCDa/V11/8
1941
Correspondence concerning gallantry (Civil Defence)
CC/A/CDa 3/3
[c.1941]
Cirencester Urban District Council: air raid precautions and services,
compiled by J.T. Evans
PA 86/22
1941-42
Defence committee minutes [North Cotswold]
DA23/118/5
1941-42
Defence and Invasion Committees
CBR C2/3/15
1941-42
Bath, Bristol & Yate: Blitz message forms
A/CDa4/1-6
1941-43
Minutes of War Defence Committee, 1941, War Invasion Committee, 194243 [Cam]
P69a PC 2/7
1941-43
Emergency committee minutes [East Dean]
DA24/118
1941-44
War book, minutes and circulars of invasion committee [Stonehouse]
P316a
PC 50/1
1941-44
War damage insurance papers [Gloucester St. Paul]
P154/17
CW 3/11
1941-44
Acts, memoranda and insurance policies for the church and parish hall
under the War Damages Acts, 1941 and 1944 [Gloucester St. Barnabas]
P154/19
VE 3/25
1941-44
Photographs, news cuttings and papers relating to Civil Defence work:
Reginald Perry of Brockworth
P154/19
VE 3/25
1941-44
Correspondence concerning Civil Defence with lists of personnel
CC/Da/
V11/2-5
c.1941-44
Lists of Civil Defence personnel with correspondence and other papers
C/CDa/VII/2-5
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1941-44,
c.1970
Olveston Group Invasion Committee book, with accompanying notes
D2604/1, 3
1941-45
Reference to black outs [Saul]
P283 IN 1/11
1941-45
A.R.P. reports and memoranda
K712/5/1
1941-45
List and indexes of air raid and unexploded bomb incidents
CC/A/
CDa/3/7-10
1941-46
Bomb damage claim at Sapperton
D1405/2/252
1941-46
War damage correspondence files (uncatalogued)
D6187b
Boxes 49 &
50
1941-48
War-time Nurseries Sub-Committee
CBR C2/4/24
1942
Ecclesiastical insurance circular concerning war damage [Charfield]
P74 VE 2/4
1942
The “Battle of Cheltenham”: a combined Civil Defence and fighting services
exercise
D8011/1/1
1942
Contracts, construction of air raid shelters [Warmley]
DA39/720/2/4
1942
Papers concerning Civil Defence in Cheltenham
D9971
1942
Fire Bomb – magazine for “F” Division [Gloucester area] National Fire
Service (second issue, April)
D5332/3/9
1942
Bath Blitz [26/27 April]: detailed records of the Blitz giving casualty figures,
reports, names of personnel
A/CDa/4/9-10
1942
Bath Blitz [26/27 April]: message forms
A/CDa/4/1
[1942]
Posters concerning the formation of local defence committee
MS 19
[c.1942]
Advert and photograph, gas filtration and ventilation plant for air raid shelters
manufactured at the Phoenix Iron Works, Stroud
D2983/2/9
1942-43
Staunton Invasion Committee minutes, 1942-43 and war book, 1943
D2926/49
1942-43
Clothing coupon book
D3716/7
1942-43
Minutes of meetings of “Wings for Victory” committee, 1942-43
[Rangeworthy]
P264a PC 1/3
1942-44
Post air raid building repairs and air raid fire guard arrangements,
Gloucester
D6937/9/1-3
1942-50
Papers relating to bomb damage in Painswick
K181/2/18
1943
Records of Stroud Area 8 Civil Defence Entertainments Committee
D2934/2
1943
Minutes of meetings concerning Christmas gifts for local Forces, 1943
P264a PC 1/3
1943
Air raid precautions handbook (No. 2)
MS 81
1943
Photograph in the Bath & Wiltshire Chronicle and Herald of Castle Street,
Bristol – destroyed by air raids
D2569/
27/53/34
1943
Instructions to ARP Controllers and others in event of invasion
CC/A/CDa/5/2
- 170 -
1944
Nominal roll of Civil Defence personnel with original returns from Districts
CCDa/V11/1
1944
Cirencester Fire Watchers' log books (uncatalogued)
D1388
Box 179
c.1944
Nominal roll of civil defence personnel with original returns from District
authorities
C/CDa/VII/1
c.1944
Papers giving details of air raid warnings, air raids and casualties
CC/A/
CDa 3/2-3
[1944]
Letter concerning air raid on Upper Slaughter
D8715
1945
Clerk's file, peace celebrations [West Dean]
DA25/
134/1/28
1945
Photographs of Gloucestershire Civil Defence bomb reconnaissance
officers
Q/Y 6/1/95
1945
Notes on Civil Defence organisation post
Q/Y 7/39
[1945]
Air raid precautions equipment in parish council custody [Ebrington]
P131a PC 1/6
1940s
Leases of properties in the Minchinhampton and Stroud districts by
servicemen and government offices
D1405/9
1945
“Area Eight” in the war against Hitlerism, being an account of the civil
defence services and ARP in Stroud and Nailsworth by P.R. Symonds
D5847/3/19
1945
Scheme for ARP in Gloucestershire, with press cuttings
CC/A/
CDa/3/5-6
c.1945
Draft History of the ARTP in Gloucestershire
CC/A/CDa 3/1
1945-46
Correspondence, accounts and papers of the Forest Green Welcome Home
Fund
D2934/3/1-6
1946
Licence for house repairs issued by the Ministry of Works
D4901/2
1946
“City of Gloucester Civil Defence: a record of service” ed. H J Larcombe
D9755
1946
Papers regarding applications for the Defence Medal
CC/Da/
V12/1-4
c.1946
Gloucester City Civil Defence: A History
Q/Y 7/40
1949-61
Sites of ant-aircraft gun emplacements
K1003/4
c.1950
Letters by parishioners describing 1944 air raid [Upper Slaughter]
P297 MI 3
1951
War Damage Commission: Plan of the Borough of Cheltenham [G. Gould
Marsland, Surveyor] on which are plotted places hit by high explosive bombs
(HEs) and sites of unexploded bombs (UXBs), 1940-42
D5027/3
1956
Lists of civilian deaths due to enemy action in Tewkesbury and in the district
council areas [Stroud and Thornbury]
DA38/182/1
1972
Blitz-Bits: memoirs of a county fireman at Chipping Sodbury in the Second
World War, by R. Ford
CMS 72
1975
The Bath Blitz, by Martin Wainwright
D6822/100
- 171 -
1988
Unsung heroes: a story of a wartime incident in the Cotswolds, by Alan
White
CMS 155
n.d
Tewkesbury pillboxes, built in 1940, including photograph on one disguised
as a hayrick
D5274
n.d.
Civil Defence plan and communication network
CC/Da/P6
Invasion Committee War Books
c.1939
Minsterworth
P218a PC 2/1
[1939]
Slimbridge – includes details of services, officers names and addresses
P298a PC 4/3
1939-45
Hartpury
D3541
[c.1939-45]
Slimbridge – includes list of wardens, Rest Committee helpers, Housewife
service and Home Guard
P298a
PC 50/1
c.1940
Cirencester Rural District Council
DA22/223
[c 1940]
Newland, Redbrook and Clearwell
P227a PC 2/1
1940-44
Tidenham (extracts)
P333a
PC 3/22
[1941]
Bagendon
D6041
1941-42
Lechlade
P197 MI 2
c.1941-43
Eastleach and Southrop
D5579/1
1941-44
Olveston
D2604/3
1941-44
Stonehouse
P316a
PC 50/1
1941-44
Kempsford
P189a PC 4/1
1942
Lechlade
D2371
1942
Kings Stanley and Leonard Stanley
P190a
PC 41/1
c.1942
Amberley
P13 MI 3
1942-43
Duntisbourne Abbots
P122a PC 3/5
1942-43
Hardwicke (with correspondence relating to Warden Post J2)
D508
1943
Staunton
D2926/49-50
1943
Cam
P69a PC 2/9
[1943]
Northleach Rural District Council
DA31/223
1943-44
Winchcombe
P368a PC 4
1945
Newent Rural District
D410
- 172 -
1960s
Essay by Olveston Parish Historical Society on the Invasion Committee
book, 1941-44
D2604/1
1940
Photograph of Whiteshill, Ruscombe and Randwick Home Guard
P363 MI 1/1
1940
Article in the Bath Chronicle and Herald about an incident in Bath where a
member of the Home Guard called on a house to ask them to switch the
light off and was accused of being drunk
D2659/
27/53/31
c.1940
Home Guard notebook [Fisher family papers]
D6633/1/9
(1940s?)
Studio portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Turner DSO, with Home Guard
arm band
D4920/
2/4/3/13
1940s
Photograph of the Home Guard (Forest Division?), including Edward Groves
of Tibberton, at the Spa Pavilion, Gloucester
D10366
1940-44
Gloucester Home Guard (5th Battalion): order book, war diary, circular,
correspondence, newspaper cuttings and photographs
D2095/1, 2
1940-44
Papers relating to Hardwicke Home Guard
D286
c.1940-44
Papers relating to Hardwicke Home Guard: include list of local defence
volunteers
D3549/33/4/16
1940-44
5th Gloucester (A company)
D4527/5
1940-44
Records relating to Painswick Home Guard. Includes LDV General
Instructions, printed Government orders and circulars, platoon roll book,
photographs and “nightly reports” (June to September 1941)
D5023/3/1-7
c.1940-44
A B Lloyd Baker’s papers relating to the Home Guard in Hardwicke
D3549/33/4/15
1940-45
Memoirs of the Local Defence Volunteers and Home Guard activities at
Stroud
D4693/6
c.1940-45
Papers concerning the Home Guard: including files on County volunteers,
monthly returns from districts, circulars and correspondence about Home
Guard/Civil Defence exercises
CCDa/V7/1-12
1940-46
Nailsworth Home Guard: register of members, 1940-44, accounts, 1940-46
D2934/1/1-3
1941
Photograph of Gloucester Oil Mills Home Guard
GPS 613/25
1941
Snapshot portraits of members of the Gloucester Home Guard (5th
Battalion)
D2095/2
1941
St. Briavels Home Guard: general orders for action stations
D8795
1941
Reference to the increasing use of the hall by the Home Guard in the
minutes of English Bicknor Village Hall Committee
D9437/1/1
c.1941
Copy photograph, Stroud Home Guard
GPS 320/133
[1941]
Photograph of Frampton-on-Severn Home Guard parading past memorial
GPS 149/68
1942
Papers concerning the Home Guard in Cheltenham
D9971
Home Guard
- 173 -
1942-45
Dursley Home Guard: correspondence, including 8th Gloucestershire Home
Guard, Dursley, ammunition officer’s papers
D2078
Box 55/1, 57/2
Early 1940s
Photograph of Gloucester Area Home Guard officers and wives at dinner
dance
GPS 613/12
1943
Ordnance Survey (War Revision) sheet, 1940, marked up to show Home
Guard stations to be taken up in the event of invasion (with news cutting,
2002)
D9107
1943
Photograph of 5th (Gloucester) Battalion, Home Guard, “P” Platoon, Shire
Hall, Gloucester
CC/V6/3
[1944]
Photograph of 7th Battalion (Stroud) Home Guard
D5023/3/7
1945
7th Battalion (B company)
D264
1945
Certificate of Quartermaster Sergeant Albert Smith's service in the Home
Guard
D4310/2
1945
Short History of the First Gloucestershire Battalion Home Guard. 1945 by
Lieutenant Colonel E.F. Eager
MI 1
1945
Story of B Company 7th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Home Guard.
1945 (forward by Lieutenant Colonel L. Dudbridge)
MI 3
1946
Papers concerning the paddock to rear of 83 High Street, Marshfield, used
by the Home Guard
D7889/3/1
n.d.
Home Guard records
CCDa/V/7
n.d.
Instructions to Home Guard on what action to take with prisoners of war
D4257/6
n.d.
Short History of Local Defence Volunteers and Home Guard in County of
Gloucestershire by P.M.C. Hayman
MI 2
Evacuation Arrangements, Evacuees & Refugees
1930s-40s
European refugees and evacuees assisted by Sir T.S. Bazley of Hatherop
Castle
D540/
F10, 11, 14,
16, 17, 22
1935-47
Rodborough Infant Welfare Centre: minutes referring to evacuees received
D9233/1/1
1936-45
Papers regarding evacuation arrangements in the County
CCDa/V5/1-11
1938-39,
1940-41
General committee minutes including evacuation [Sodbury]
DA33/
111/7, 12
1938-41
Papers concerning evacuation and billeting arrangements relating to
Thornbury, Warmley and West Dean RDs, with central register of
accommodation
CCDa/
V5/36-40
1938-49,
Letters about and from Belgian evacuees
D3549/
31/1/14-17,
31/3/10
1938-45
Gloucester Association for Aiding Refugees - minutes, 1939-42, accounts,
1939-45, correspondence, circulars, pamphlets, reports, etc., 1938-45
D7501
- 174 -
1939
Billeting of evacuees in Hucclecote
D6666/6/6
1939
Details of evacuation scheme [Warmley]
P48a PC 1/6-7
1939
Circular from the Mayor of Cheltenham concerning the evacuation of
children
D5435/6/19
c.1939
Register of accommodation, Cirencester
DA4/220
c.1939
Minutes of reception committee for evacuees [Minsterworth]
P218a
PC 41/2
1939
Circular from Gloucester Rural District Council concerning the government
evacuation scheme
D5559/2/10
1939
Evacuees using school [Standish]
P305 SC 5
1939-40
Papers concerning the evacuation of schoolchildren from Birmingham to
Dymock
S125/2/14
1939-40
Papers concerning the evacuees from Birmingham at Hardwicke Court
D3549/31/1/14
1939-40
Correspondence concerning evacuation, Stonehouse
P316a
PC 10/8
1939-40
Evacuation tribunal, evacuation committee, Civil Defence committee,
Sodbury
DA33/111/10
1939-41
Papers relating to evacuation arrangements for various rural and urban
districts
CCDa/
V5/12-35
1939-42
Minutes of special meetings to discuss evacuees, 1939; minutes of defence
committee, 1941-42 [Westbury-on-Severn]
P354a PC 1/1
1939- c.1942
Amateur film with footage of evacuees in Devon and Wiltshire.
D7008/1
(Prog 5)
1939 c.1944
Papers of Allison, Lady Dunrossil concerning evacuees (uncatalogued)
D9939
(acc 9987)
(1939)-1958
Correspondence regarding evacuation of Pro Patria (Islington) Day Nursery
to Dyrham Park and Doynton Rectory
CE/C/3
1940
Correspondence and circulars regarding foreign War refugees
CC/Da/V11/7
c.1940
Government evacuation scheme: register of accommodation, Gloucester
DA27/220
c.1940
Register of accommodation for evacuees, Lydney
DA28/220
c.1940
Preparatory school evacuated from Kent to Nether Swell Manor
D8434/2
c.1940
Register of accommodation for evacuees, Nailsworth
DA11/220
1940-42
Evacuation register, West Dean
DA25/221
1940-44
Evacuation committee minutes, North Cotswold
DA23/118/4
1940-44
Government evacuation scheme: register of accommodation, Northleach
DA31/220
1940-44
List of official evacuees at Kemble County Primary School
S186/5
- 175 -
1940-45
Government evacuation scheme: register of persons received in the district,
Tetbury
DA36/221
1940-45
Register of evacuees, Nailsworth
DA11/221
1941
Papers concerning evacuation of Zurich Financial Services staff to
Minsterworth, including photograph of staff at Hampton House
D10217
1941
Taynton & Tibberton Village Hall management committee minutes:
possibility that the hall would no longer be used by evacuees
D9043/1/1/2
1941
Diarist’s notes of the numbers of evacuee babies at various locations
D2659/
27/53/32
1941-43
List of evacuees, Marshfield
D7889/3/6
1941-45
Government evacuation centre, Minchinhampton
D1405/2/271
1942-45
Government evacuation scheme: register of billeting payments
TBR B122
1943-44
Memoranda concerning evacuation and hostel accommodation at Parkend
House, West Dean
DA25/224
1944
Reference in letters to the reluctance of some Cheltenham residents to take
evacuees
D5814
1945-46
Circulars concerning the government evacuation scheme
TBR B131
1945-63
Correspondence regarding settlement and education of refugees in
Gloucestershire
K482
c.1948
Photographs of European refugees receiving aid from relief agencies
P228 MI 19
Prisoners of War
1914-1947
Gloucester cemetery: register of burials in war graves, including prisoners of
war, 1940-47 (indexed); list of earlier war graves, 1914-21
GBR L4/4/4/5
[1943-44]
Photographs of scenes of life at Slimbridge potato harvesting camp at New
Grounds, including Italian prisoners of war
D5852/1/3
1943-45
Escape of German prisoners of war
Q/Y 5/4/2
1943-1951
Contract ledger with details of hours worked by POWs
CBR C5/2/2/2
1948
Subscription towards a farewell gift for a German POW choir [Pucklechurch
Congregational Church] – in the Church Meeting Book, 1941-60
D8697/2/3
1947
German prisoners of war working in Tytherington quarries
D5032
c.1963
Photograph of Italian war memorial at Coalway (Wynolls Hill)
D3921/II/4/1
1977
Article by Norman Irvine referring to the use of Italian POWs on forestry
work at Chedworth
D9249/4/25
1995
Notes concerning the Marconi memorial to Italian prisoners of War held in
the Forest of Dean
FD66
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Property Requisitions
1933-49
Correspondence and papers mainly concerning the requisitioning of St.
Barnabas church hall, Tuffley by the War Department [Gloucester St.
Barnabas]
P154/19 MI 10
1938-46
Requisitioning of Corsham Hall, Thornbury as a canteen for soldiers billeted
locally
P330a PC
36/3
1939
Requisitioning of property in Westonbirt
D5058/5/1
c.1939-45
Requisitioning of land by the Ministry of Supply [Gloucester St. James]
P154/8 IN 3/6
c.1939-46
Registers of property hired, requisitioned and war damaged: Gloucester City
GBR L6/13
1940
Note in the baptism register concerning the closure of the church under the
War Emergency Act [Gloucester St. Michael]
P154/14 IN 1/7
1940-41
Requisitions of land on the Kemble estate by the Air Ministry
D5112/
Box 3
Bundle 13
1940-44
Details of requisitioned property: Cirencester
DA4/222
1940-44
Record of requisitions: Stroud
DA16/222
1940-45
Correspondence and papers concerning the requisitioning of the church and
parish hall and a claim for damages against the War Department
[Gloucester St. Barnabas]
P154/19
VE 3/51
1940-47
Property record (war requisitions) [East Dean]
DA24/222
1940-48
Requisitioning of Hatherop Castle
D540/E68
1940-52
Property record, wartime requisitions [Stroud]
DA35/222
(1940) - 1952
Claim for requisition damage to church property, Stroud, with description of
evacuees arriving
D2537/3/34
1941-45
Use of church hall by the Air Ministry and Ministry of Food [Marshfield]
P213
IN 4/29, VE
3/2, SP 1/7, 8
1942
Order to close St. Mary's church [Hawkesbury]
P170 IN 3/4
1942
Correspondence concerning the requisitioning of the Poor's Lots by the War
Agricultural Executive Committee [Windrush]
P369 CH 2
1942-43
Papers relating to the requisition by the Air Ministry of Walmore Common
D4170/4/19
1943
Requisitioning of land in Littleton-on-Severn by the Air Ministry
D4365/E34
1943-44
Correspondence concerning the requisition of the parish mission room
[Stone]
P315 VE 3/2
1944
Schedule of condition of reading room, Eastleach, on wartime requisitioning
D540/F42
1945
Requisition of Holloway House, Stroud and its subsequent sale to the British
Red Cross Society
D8004/
1/1/4/2
1940s
Property leased and requisitioned in Stroud area
D1405
- 177 -
1947
Drainage to two cottages, Upton, requisitioned by the Women's Land Army
during the war [Tetbury]
DA36/
710/2/279
1947-49
Requisitioned land: papers concerning compensation
P356 IN 3/5
1957-58
Correspondence concerning agricultural lad required during the War
K149/62
Billeting of Troops
1938-46
Requisitioning of Corsham Hall, Thornbury as a canteen for soldiers billeted
locally
P330a
PC 36/3
c.1939-45
An account of the wartime experiences of a Bledington villager who boarded
soldiers
D5307/31
c.1940
Gloucester Rural District Council billeting officer's papers
D5560/2/1-2
1940-41
Billeting of troops in the Methodist Sunday School Hall, Tewkesbury
D2599/7/42
1944
Attitudes towards Americans stationed locally [Maugersbury]
P317a PC 1/2
National Registration
1939-46
I.D. card
D3435/15
1940-41
Implementation of national registration
CBR C3/2/3
1940, 1944
I.D. cards for Mary Watts, 1940, and Charlotte Watts, 1944
D4889/25
1940-45
E.C. Pugh's ID cards and correspondence
D2606/2-4
1941
National Services grade card, certificate of registration and explanatory
notes
D5559/2/13
1943
I.D. card
D4175/3
1943
I.D. cards: Thomas Curzon and Phyllis Curzon
D4527/11
1943
I.D. card
D5847/3/18
1943
I.D. card
MI 26
1943
I.D. card
K1013/14
1943-47
I.D. card: Frederick C Smith
D4310/3
1943, 1948
I.D. cards: F M C Massey, 1943, M E Guirron, 1948
D7746/2
1943, 1945
I.D. cards
D3940
1943-48
I.D. card for Frank Betteridge of Woolaston
D5184/7
1943-50
I.D. card for Doris E Spiers (nee White) of Gloucester
D5286
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Special Constabulary
1939
Mobilisation, prohibition of the sale of horses, impressment of vehicles,
billeting of troops, police duties
Q/Y 2/2/2
1939
War duty hints published by the Metropolitan Police
Q/Y 7/59
1939-41
Orders and correspondence of the Glos. Special Constabulary, Ashleworth
Section
D1969/Z1
1940
Photograph of special constables at St. Marks, Cheltenham
Q/Y 6/1/57
1940-44
Police papers relating to restrictions, aliens, radios, black outs, politics, etc.
Q/Y 5/5/2
1942
An ABC for Special Constables and Police War Reserves
Q/Y 7/60
[c.1942]
Handbook for Special Constabulary in Gloucestershire
Q/Y 7/61
1944-45
Official journal of the Gloucestershire Special Constabulary
D5184/4
1945
Photographs of War Reserve constables at Gloucester Station, at the end of
the war
D4609
1946
The War Record Book of the Gloucestershire Special Constabulary
Q/Y 1/9
& MI 46
Food & Agriculture
1918-43
Correspondence concerning allotments, 1918-43, including Gloucestershire.
Rural Community Council War Time Bulletins, nos. 1-6, 1939-40 [Awre]
P30a PC 33/2
1937-45
Food production [Ashleworth]
P20a PC 1/1
1939-40
Gloucestershire Home Food Production Society and Gloucestershire Pig
and Potato Production Committee: pamphlets and circulars, 1939-40;
Gloucestershire Rural Community Council: wartime bulletins, 1939-40
[Awre]
P30a PC 33/2
1939-42
Note about emergency food rations: Uley and Owlpen
D3549/
31/1/15
1939-43
War allotment plans, Cheltenham
D3893/16/1
1939-46
Cultivation of land orders
D678/1/E8/14
1939-46
Correspondence of Allison, Lady Dunrossil concerning the Women’s Land
Army (uncatalogued)
D9939
(acc 9987)
1939-56
Wartime and post-war restrictions and regulations affecting flour millers
D5355/1/4/6
1940
Increased plough land required by the Glos. War Agricultural Executive
Committee
D2708/14
c.1940
Details of the supply and prices of some foods and tobacco
D4737/8
c.1940
Photograph of unidentified group, thought to be members of the
Gloucestershire Home Food Production Society
D7324/1
- 179 -
1940-43
Harwood estate papers relating to the War Agricultural Executive
Committee and the management of farms in South Gloucestershire
D4365/
E41, 44
(1940-45)
Rev John Thornton’s experiences as a farmer’s boy
D10120
1940-51
Home Food Production Club, 1940-51, and Welcome Home fund, 1945-46,
Kemble
P186a
PC 43/1-3,
44/1-2
1940-66
Accounts of the Gloucestershire Home Food Production Society and local
horticultural committees
K607/7/5-8
1940-69
Gloucestershire Home Food Production Society
D7324
1941
Cartoon and poem illustrating the Women's Institute's wartime jam-making
efforts
D5036/2/8
1941
Newspaper cuttings concerning the difficulties of ensuring a regular food
supply, Cheltenham
D5845/2/3
1941
Communal dietaries in war time
K791/2
1941
War-time Recipes collected by Ambrose Heath
D9249/11/6
1941-42
Records concerning food organization in the Thornbury area in the event of
invasion
D457
1941-43
Correspondence with the Gloucestershire War Agricultural Executive
Committee concerning the cultivation of the vicarage glebe field [Standish]
P305 IN 3/18
1941-43
Papers of the Voluntary Food Organiser
D3471/1/312
1941-44
Correspondence of W A Panes or Stockwell Farm, Birdlip with the Ministry
of Agriculture and others about harvests, targets, ploughing up footpaths
(etc), with list of charges made for field work and hire implements
D8613/4/1-10
1942
Correspondence concerning the requisitioning of the Poor's Lots by the War
Agricultural Executive Committee [Windrush]
P369 CH 2
1942
Detailed analysis of supplies of food in various countries: amongst papers of
papers of Sir (Charles) Percy Lister relating to his wartime activities as a
director of the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation
D3310/7
1942
Notes on agricultural policy for those directing the food production
campaign, issued by Ministry of Agriculture
D8613/3/1
1942-52
Mr W.A. Panes, farmer of Cowley, Inspector of Farms in the Cheltenham
District for the Gloucestershire Agricultural Executive Committee in and after
the war: include farm survey forms, 1942-52, information booklets, 1942-48,
correspondence, 1940-55, minutes, 1947-51
D8613
1943
Women's Land Army at Miserden Park
D1405/2/224
1943-44
Gloucestershire. War Agricultural Executive Committee - headquarters log
book; photographs of potato harvesting
D5852/1/1-3
1943-44
Circulars on the employment of schoolchildren in agriculture, 1943, and on
school gardens, 1944
S175/1/4/2
- 180 -
[1943-44]
Photographs of scenes of life at Slimbridge potato harvesting camp at New
Grounds, including Italian prisoners of war
D5852/1/3
1943-48
S.J. Phillips: appointment as marshal for the Kemble Rest Centre, 1943;
appointment as voluntary food organiser for Kemble, 1943; selection as
representative on the County Agricultural Executive Committee, 1948; labels
used by the Wartime Committee, n.d. (uncatalogued)
D5112
Box 12/8, 9
1945
Curtailing of maintenance of a farm's hedges and ditches due to “extra work
of National Importance”
D5412/III/17
1945-46
“The Land Worker” (journal of the National Union of Agricultural Workers)
D5080/5
1940s
Government advice on gardening, with recipes
D6035/8/5
1977
Article by Norman Irvine referring to commandeering of Chedworth Woods
in World War II
D9249/4/25
1939
Reference to the effects of petrol rationing on social activities in the minutes
of English Bicknor Village Hall Committee
D9437/1/1
1939-50
Papers relating to petrol rationing
CC/V/2/7
1940-45
Ration books
K587/11/1
1941-49
Papers regarding wartime restrictions on consumption of fuel
K587/11/2
1942-43
Taynton & Tibberton Village Hall management committee minutes: the
effects of rationing of coal and petrol
D9043/1/1/2
1943
Ministry of Food permit to buy soap
P345 CW 4/8
1945
References to rationing in the diary of Ruby Timms of Moreton-in-Marsh
D8827/1/1
1945-47
Clothing ration books
K587/6/1
1945-49
Petrol rationing and clothing allowances for workers
D1405/
2/277, 315
1946
Letter from the Ministry of Food concerning personal points rationing
D4737/10
1946-49
Ration book
K1013/12
1947-48
Clothing book
D3940
1953-54
Ration book of M. Price
D4177
1953-54
Ministry of Food ration books
MI 26
Rationing
Employment, Manufacture & Supply
Gloucestershire’s contribution to the War effort in terms of manufacturing was important and
two sites were key targets for the Luftwaffe bombers: the Gloster Aircraft Company,
Brockworth [D4676], and the premises of Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company
[D4971]. The archives also include papers (with photographs) of the PLUTO (Pipeline under
- 181 -
the Ocean) project for supplying oil to the allied armies in France after D-Day [D5748/3/3233]. Amongst papers deposited that originate from the National Coal Board are various
reports on coal resources in the Forest of Dean made during the War years [D7920/1-8].
c.1920c.1956
Gloster Aircraft Company - Photograph Album (indexed). Includes: types of
aircraft designed since c.1910; personalities; pilots; factory and staff;
certificates of aircraft performance, 1922-46; Schneider trophy contests
D4676/1/1
c.1921c.1954
Photograph of Gloster Aircraft Company aircraft. Item 1/28, of a Gloster F
1940, is with a group that includes Frank Whittle, c.1943. Other items
D4676/2-27
1932-1965
Reports on the Forest of Dean coalfields
D7920/1-8
1939 c.1942
Amateur film with footage including women car workers
D7008/1
(Prog 5)
1939-43
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Drawing Office
Requisition books: tank wagons for Air Ministry, Ministry of Supply and ICI
(Alkali) Ltd.
D4791/
21/492A
1939-43
Efficient use of steam plant in wartime
D5748/3/30
1939-45
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Engineering Drawings:
Ministry of Supply – various wagons
D4791/24/11
1939-45
Newsletters of R.A. Lister and Co. Ltd. of Dursley to those serving in the
forces
D7698/2
1940-42
H H Martyn & Co., Cheltenham: correspondence concerning war production
at foundry and sharing workspace with Meigh High tensile Alloys Ltd.
D6345/1/6
1940-43
Minutes of the UK Commercial Corp.
D3310/7/1
1940-43
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Drawing Office requisition
books: Ministry of Supply – bogie well wagons
D4791/
20/498-499
1940-43
Various papers concerning the UK Commercial Corporation including issue
17 of Gossip, the wartime magazine of R.A. Lister & Co. of Dursley
D3310/7/2/1-4
1940-43
Ministry of Aircraft production: cloth patterns [William Playne & Co. Ltd,
Longford Mills, Minchinhampton]
D4644/4/15
1941
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Drawing Office
Requisition books: Admiralty – 4000 U.P. single rail projectors; K.R.G.
Aircraft Co. Ltd. – mild steel hexagon bars
D4791/
21/497A
1941-47
Agreement concerning war work, Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon
Co.
D4791/28/1-4
1941-47
Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Co.: agreement concerning war
work and papers concerning land
D6242/
2/11-14
1942
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Drawing Office
Requisition books: Ministry of Supply – underframes with all under and
running gear and tank mounting gear
D4791/
21/498A
1942
Planning, two workshops, Gloster Aircraft Co. Ltd., Swindon [Cheltenham]
DA21/
710/31/11/42
1942
Reference to women's war work
D3910/3/1/1
- 182 -
1942
Petition and papers concerning establishment of day nursery at Kingswood
[near Bristol] for children whose mothers were engaged in essential War
work
K910/4/13
1943
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Drawing Office
Requisition books: Ministry of Supply – 100 sets of vacuum brakework for
U.S.A. bogie flat wagons, cistern wagons and 4 wheeled box cars; also,
spares for 4 wheeled French ferry wagons
D4791
21/502A
1943
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Engineering Drawings:
Ministry of Supply – Warwell wagons and Warwell flat bogies
D4791/24/12
1943-44
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Drawing Office
Requisition books: Ministry of Supply – spares for 20 ton French type
covered goods wagons and for Warflat wagons in service overseas
D4791/
21/503A
1943-44
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Drawing Office
Requisition books: Ministry of Supply – 14/16 ton steels wagons
D4791/
21/504A
1943-44
Photograph of Gloster Aircraft (Hucclecote factory) Typhoon manufacture
D5922/
(acc 9160)
1944
Planning, additional workshops, Bresson Aircraft Factory, Leckhampton
[Cheltenham]
DA21/
710/31/16/42
1944-45
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Drawing Office
Requisition books: Admiralty Signal establishment – 140 road/rail containers
D4791/
21/506A,
510A
1944-45
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Drawing Office
Requisition books: Ministry of Supply – spares for French ferry vans, buffer
plates and maintenance & repair of 80 ton wagons on behalf of G.W.R.
Swindon
D4791/
21/507A
1944-45
W Sisson & Co., Engineers, of Gloucester: Papers relating to the PLUTO
[Pipeline under the Ocean] project for supplying oil to allied armies in
France, including photographs of the laying of the pipeline and Sisson
engines
D5748/
3/32-33
1945
Credit notes of W.Geldart Ltd. of Gloucester, ladies' outfitters, mentioning
utility garments and clothing coupons
D3453/4
1945-46
Minutes of meeting of directors of Copeland-Chatterson & Co. Ltd of Stroud
concerning “the effect of ending the Japanese War on factory labour,
salesmen and aircraft work in the machine shop”; and an order for the
Polish Army
D9015/1/3, 4
1994
Mrs Constance Will’s recollections of the impact of the War on the Reliance
Works, Dursley
D3453/4
War Weapons & Salvage
1940
Photograph of Girl Guides in War Weapons Week parade, Chipping
Campden
D7107/10/3
1940-41
Stroud Girl Guides contingent at War Weapons Week parade, early 1940s;
Girl Guides in Chipping Campden War Weapons Week parade, 1940
D7107/9/17
1940-41
Salvage, [Ashleworth]
P20a PC 1/1
- 183 -
1940-49
Cheltenham Borough Council Salvage Sub-Committee
CBR C2/4/18
1941
Record of railings gathered for the wartime salvage effort, Cheltenham
D5130/3/1
1941
Salvage scheme using iron railings
D5130/77
1941
Programme for War Weapons Week, Thornbury
D4764/3/1
1941
Photograph of United service for War Weapons Week, Painswick
D5023/4/6
1941
Report of County Salvage Adviser
K1348/1
1943
Papers concerning the County and City book and salvage drive
CCDa/V11/9
Hospitals & Red Cross
1939-81
Cuttings relating to Chipping Sodbury War Memorial Hospital
D6822/43
c.1943
Papers regarding Fred Francis Foster’s work as a woodcraft worker for the
American Red Cross, including photograph of a group of soldiers
D8709/3,4
c.1945
Certificate for service from Red Cross and St. John War organization
K1013/10
Welfare & War Relief
1931-48
Papers of Gloucestershire War Relief Committee
K1155/3,4
1935-47
Rodborough Infant Welfare Centre: minutes referring to childcare and
support for wives of servicemen
D9233/1/1
1942-48
Minutes of War Distress Fund, Kingswood and Hanham
DA8/111/16
c.1945
Leaflets for welfare society for mentally disabled ex-servicemen
P345 MI 3
1947
Lord Roberts’ memorial workshops for disabled ex-servicemen
P236 IN 4/6
1939
Form of prayer [Coleford St. Luke]
P93/3 IN 4/3
1939-45
Orders of service [Standish]
P305 IN 4/4
1939-45
Various sermons by Rev. W. S. T. Parker of Hasfield [Cheltenham St. Peter
parish records]
P78/11
IN4/6/1-16
c.1939-45
Requests for prayers for men on service [Compton Abdale]
P98 IN 4/2
1939-45
Prayers and additions to services [Duntisbourne Abbots]
P122 MI 4
1939, 1945
Forms of prayer at time of war and for victory in Europe
P135
IN 4/9/2-3
1940
Intercessions [Tredington]
P339 IN 4/2
Intercessions
- 184 -
1940
Form of prayer to be used in war
P136 IN 1/14
c.1940
Intercession in time of war [Great Rissington]
P268 IN 4/2
1941
Order of evening service on Armistice Sunday 1941
P193 CW 3/2
1942
Form of prayer for the 3rd anniversary of the outbreak of war
P366 IN 1/7
V.E. Day & Victory Celebrations
1941-46
Victory celebrations, 1946 and minutes of special committees, 1941-46
[Cam]
P69a PC 2/7
[1945]
Fete, sports and dance
D3471/154
1946
Official programme of victory celebrations
MS 55
1946
Victory message to schoolchildren by King George VI
D7405/2/3
1946
Victory celebrations [Ashleworth]
P20a PC 1/1
1940 - 1987
National victory celebrations, 1946
D7107/1
1945
Photograph of VE Day tea and sports, Lower Slaughter
D2600/25
1945
Photograph of crowd and policemen, celebrating peace
Q/Y 6/3/36
1946
Victory message by King George VI to the nation’s children marking the end
of the War
D9486
1946
Programme for Dursley’s victory celebrations
D7442/8
1985
Order for church parade & service to commemorate 40 years of peace since
VE Day [Stonehouse]
P316a
PC 50/4
1985
Souvenir newspaper supplement commemorating the 40th anniversary of
VE Day
D7442/5
1995
Service of remembrance and commitment [St. Peters Minsterworth]
PA 218/6
1995
VE Day commemoration service [North Cerney]
P70 IN 4/13
Welcome Home Committees & Fund Raising
1939-48
Minutes of Welcome Home Fund-Raising Committee, with notes on the
wartime service of recipients [Kingswood]
P193a PC 2/4
1945
Celebrations organised by the Welcome Home Committee, Thornbury
DA38/
141/3/26
1945
Papers of the Ashleworth Welcome Home fund
D1969/Z2/1-2
1945-46
Minutes of Oldbury's Welcome Home fund
D4764/2/20
1945-46
Welcome Home Committee minutes [Kemble and Ewen]
P186a
PC 44/1
- 185 -
1945-48
Churchdown Village Welcome Home Fund: minutes, correspondence,
accounts
D5871/1-3
1947
Papers concerning the Welcome Home fund [Hempsted]
P173 MI 6
Home front - miscellaneous
1936-45
References to preparations and contingency plans [Bishops Cleeve]
P46a PC 1/3
1937-46
Air raid precautions, food production, salvage, etc., 1937-45, and victory
celebrations, 1946 [Ashleworth]
P20a PC 1/1
1938
Programmes, posters and news cuttings concerning “Stroud Peace Week”,
12-19 March
D2645/1
1938-40
Correspondence on wartime arrangements in Kingswood
P193a
PC 10/8
1938-45
Thornbury Rural District Council: Clerk's correspondence files
DA38/135
1939
The Outbreak of War, (a Ministry of Information leaflet)
S124/4/11
1939
Public information leaflets
MI 25
1939
Building control applications and plans, mobilisation store in Cirencester
Road, for the War Office [Tetbury]
DA36/
710/2/104
1939-40
Gloucestershire Rural Community Council: wartime bulletins [Awre]
P30a PC 33/2
1939 c.1942
Amateur film with footage of evacuees in Devon and Wiltshire, women car
workers, the blitz in Exeter, Devon and a concert party in Frome, Somerset
D7008/1
(Prog 5)
1939-44
Community Council War Emergency Committee minutes, 1939,
correspondence, 1939-44
D3168/
1/12/1, 4/5/14, 4/7/98
1939-44
Organisation of voluntary and statutory bodies concerned with social work,
including accommodation of evacuees, 1939, and memorandum on
Women’s Land Army in Gloucestershire
D3168/4/5/1-4
1939-45
7th Gloucester Girl Guides' war log book [Gloucester St. Barnabas]
P154/19 MI 4
1939-45
Memorandum on the war in service register [Kempley]
P188 IN 1/13
[1939-45]
Circular supporting the National Savings Movement, signed by religious
leaders
P93/3 IN 4/4
1939-48
Papers concerning coke rationing, war damage contributions and
compensation for iron gates and railings removed during the war
D4700/22-24
1939-49
Minutes and accounts of the Apperley and District Parish Troops Comfort
Fund, and of the Deerhurst and District Home Food Production Club
P112a MI 2, 3
1939-1940s
Effects of the war on the provision of homes for young vagrants
D5426/13-16
1940
Duke of Beaufort's fund (for soldiers)
P345 CW 4/6
1940
Booklet of information on preparations for defence in the event of invasion:
Ampney Crucis
D8/Z4
- 186 -
c.1940
Patriotic housekeeping exhibition competition
D4402/4/6
c.1940
Concert in Dursley in aid of the Fighting French airmen
D5425/36/6
1940-41
Gloucestershire Social Service War Council: minutes, correspondence, etc.
D372/1-18
1940-45
Details of peacetime occupations and service numbers of service personnel
D4733/1/4
1940-44
Police records relating to wartime restrictions [closure restrictions apply]
Q/Y 5/5/2
1940-87
National victory celebrations, 1946; Stroud Girl Guides contingent at War
Weapons Week parade, early 1940s; reunion of women who worked as
drivers of military leaders, 1987; Girl Guides in Chipping Campden War
Weapons Week parade, 1940
D7107/
1/1, 9/17, 26,
10/3
1941
A call to the people of Gloucestershire by Gloucestershire Social Service
War Council
D4402/4/7
1941
Restrictions on details of members of the armed forces to be entered in
marriage registers
D5533/6/4
1941
Map showing closure of road at Kemble aerodrome (uncatalogued)
D5112/
Box 4 bdl 24
1941-42
Use of the Dursley Tabernacle schoolroom by Hardwicke County High
School
D4733/5/17
1941-42
Reference to a play at Cheltenham Ladies' College for Mrs. Churchill's Aid
to Russia Fund
D4227/9
1941-43
Papers of the Vol. Food Organiser and member of the Blockley Parish
Invasion Committee and Central Committee for “Warship Week”, 1941-43;
exchange visits between members of the North Cotswold Rural District
Council and the crew of HMS Cotswold, 1943
D3471/1312
1941-44
Fund-raising activities [Stonehouse]
P316a
PC 2/5-8
1941-c.1944
Fund raising for China and Russia, 1941-43; Gloucester and District War
Savings Committee, c1944
D2972/2/21
1941-45
Details of the baptisms of children of service personnel [Condicote]
P100 IN 1/6
[1942]
Adoption of HMS Cotswold in Warship Week [Ebrington]
P131a
PC 39/1
1942
Extracts from children's comments on the radio broadcast: Exploring our
village in wartime
D3398/2/3/12
1942-46
Stroud High School for Girls Training Corps: minutes and orders, 1942-46,
photograph, 1942
D1184/1-3
1942-48
Minutes of meetings of distress fund [Kingswood and Hanham]
DA8/111/2
1943
Appointment of S.J. Phillips as rest centre marshal (uncatalogued)
D5112/
Box 12
bundle 8
1943
Reference to Battle of Britain Sunday [Cam]
P69a PC 1/12
1943
Bibliography guide issued by the Board of Education: The schools in
wartime: the study of the British Empire
P135 SC 3/4
- 187 -
[1943]
“Wings for Victory” week, 1943; clothing ration book, n.d.
D3471/419
1943-46
“Letters to our serving folk” from Dursley Tabernacle
D4733/8/3
1943-65
Parish council's response to various wartime appeals and funds [Marshfield]
P213a
PC 11/3
1944
Salute the Soldier Week committee minutes [Stonehouse]
P316a PC 2/8
1944
Letter concerning a Noel Coward concert
D6885/2/2
1944
Thornbury Divisional Labour Party correspondence concerning war widows
and conscription
D8635/1/3
1945
Photograph of War Reserve constables at Gloucester Station, at the end of
the war
D4609
1944
Reference in the minutes of English Bicknor Village Hall Committee to a
meeting with Lieutenant Kitch, Commanding Officer of American troops, to
discuss ways to avoid disturbances in the hall
D9437/1/2
1945
Diary of Ruby Timms of Moreton-in-Marsh: various wartime references,
including rationing, and her visits to RAF Moreton (Operational training Unit)
D8827/1/1
n.d.
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: photographs of visit of
Queen Mary
D4791/
17/3
pp.237-244
1949
Post-war credit certificate
D4700/32
1970s-1980s
Notes compiled by Brian Clark on aspects of the history of Brockworth
including wartime events
D5069/2/3
1994
Operation Bolero: The Americans in Bristol & the West country, 1942-45 by
K. Wakefield
ROL E5
1998
Pamphlet, Leckhampton in the Second World War
PA198/13
n.d.
Notes on Thornbury during the war
D4764/3/8
n.d.
Reminiscences of Thornbury during the war
D5037/7/7
n.d.
Olveston and Aust parishes: the war period 1939-45 by Eric V. Garrett
MS 137
n.d.
Life on the home front, schools pack by James Turtle
ROL G4
2004
Home Front Dean: The Archaeology and History of World War II in the
Forest of Dean and West Gloucestershire by J Putley & A Webb
ROL D5
Wartime events and observations, including action in North Africa
1937-39
Correspondence with German manufacturer concerning the politics
separating Germany and Britain
D540/F11
1939
News Chronicle – “Guide to the Strengths and Resources of the Powers”
D5559/2/9
1939
Letter referring a speech by Reichmarshal Herman Goering
D540/F16
1939
Mobilization notice, addressed to Lieutenant Colonel E P Butler, RGH, with
notes about the formation of a second regiment
D4920/3/3/2/2
- 188 -
1939
Territorial Army notice to join RGH, with cuttings about RGH progress in the
War
D4920/2/4/1/1
1939-42
Notes on wartime events [Gloucester St. John the Baptist]
P154/9 IN 1/32
1939-45
Cuttings relating to the War [Great Witcombe and Bentham]
P373 MI 1
[c.1939-45]
Germany and Europe, a study guide published by the Workers Educational
Association
D4227/21/1
1940
References to Dunkirk and the fall of France in the service register of
Standish
P305 IN 1/14
1940
Copy of an address by Adolf Hitler
TBR E10
1940
Article in the Bath Chronicle and Herald about a German plane that crashed,
having a representation of Mr. Chamberlain’s umbrella painted on the side;
about RAF attacks on Germany; and about “screaming bombs” falling in the
South West countryside. Photograph of Berlin’s Templehof Aerodrome,
bombed by the RAF
D2659/
27/53/31
1940, 1943
Article in the Sunday Express by Brigadier-General E L Spears on the
question of possible parachute or airborne troop landings; in the Daily
Telegraph relating to Me323 air transports
D4527/1,4
1940-1941
Military maps of El Gubi, 1940, and Tobruk, 1941
D4920/2/4/2/5
1941
Battle of Britain August-October 1940 - an Air Ministry account
MI 40
1941
1st Armoured Division “secret” movement instruction no.1, 6th August.
Refers to various units, including 2nd RGH
D4920/
2/4/2/10
1941
Typed extract from letter to Brigadier J. Scott Cockburn, Officer
Commanding 22nd Armoured Brigade, detailing the Brigade’s time in Libya
in November and December, 1941
D4920/
2/4/2/11
c.1941
Train tickets from Alexandria to Sidi Gaber; map of Cairo
D4920/
2/4/2/12
(1941)
Illuminated address to Gloucestershire Yeomanry [being copy of message
to 2nd RGH by the Duke of Beaufort before they went into action in the
Western Desert]
D4920/2/4/2/9
(1941)
Copies of greetings cards sent to members of the Watts family by
servicemen in the Middle East
D4889/26
1941-1942
Personal account of 2nd RGH offensive in Libya and Egypt, NovemberDecember 1941, with sketch of battle manoeuvres. Probably written by Co.
W.A.B. Trevor, who died of wounds in June 1942
D4920/
2/4/2/13
1941-1942
Manuscript account of 2nd RGH in Egypt, from 1st October 1941 to 15th
January 1943. Author unknown.
D4920/
2/4/2/14
1941-1942
Citations for various 2nd RGH men
D4920/
2/4/2/15
1941-1943
Tim Pitman’s battle history of the RGH: the campaigns in Libya and Egypt,
with appendix: “an account of the adventures of a wounded man at the
Battle of Sidi Resegh”
D4920/3/3/3
1941-1944
Lectures, articles, etc. concerning wartime Germany
D540/F23
- 189 -
(1942)
Photograph of painting, with related notes, showing officers in the desert
discussing a motor column recce whilst at Bug Bug on withdrawal from the
Knightsbridge area, June 1942
D4920/
2/4/2/17
c.1942
Diary/account of 2nd RGH in Africa by Major Thomas Elder-Jones
D4920/2/4/3/3
1942
2nd RGH disbandment order no. 1
D4920/
2/4/2/24
1942-43, n.d.
German Army identification, with equivalent British rankings; German army
badges of rank on canvas suits for tank and car crews: original colour
drawings by C T Curzon; badge of rank of German paratrooper
D4527/2-3, 9
1942-1944
Copies of The Parade [October 1942-March 1944] and The army at War in
Tunisia [1944]
D4920/
2/4/2/22
[1943?]
10 shilling note issued in Tunisia by the Allied Military Government,
Occupied Territory
D4889/27
1944
News cuttings and snapshots of the Italian Campaign
D4920/2/4/3/2
(1944), 1994
Papers relating to 1st RGH’s role in D Day
D4920/
2/4/1/21
1945
Wartime correspondence, with details of events in France [Thornbury]
DA38/298/1
Individual experiences
1937-40
Diary of W.H. Spurrier, Vicar of Bibury
D2515
(1939-c.1941)
Reminiscences of Sergeant John Vaughan, G Squadron, 2 RGH, compiled
c.1980. Includes Middle East campaigns
D4920/
2/4/3/14
1939-45
An account of the wartime service of Alfred (”Mac”) McKenna, RGH, written
by his son
D4920/2/4/3/7
1939-45
Wartime family letters, including a description of London, 1941
D6035
1939-47
Papers relating to the wartime service of Geoffrey Warren Fisher in the
RAFVR, including pilot’s log book [Churchdown area], RAFVR log books,
records and memoranda, service and discharge papers and family letters
D6633/1/9
1940-1943
Correspondence of John Archer Cadwallader, who served with the New
Zealand Expeditionary Forces in Greece and the Middle East
D4500/2/3
1940-1945
Letters from Lewis Henry (“Harry”) Gibbs written to his future wife while on
active service with a radar unit in the Middle East and central
Mediterranean, including Sicily and Italy
D5814
c.1941
Papers relating to Lance Corporal Peter Hooper including portrait and
photographs of memorials, plus names listed on the El Alamein memorial
register
D4920/2/4/3/4
1941-45
Letters to F W Fisher “providing a record of the Fisher family and younger
generation during the War”
D6633/2/2
c.1942-45
Account of the bravery of a couple in the Royal Armoured Corps meriting
the Military Cross, (c1942); discharge papers, 1945
P373 MI 3
1940s
Men and women serving in the armed forces: snapshots and portraits
D2689/2/4/39
- 190 -
1941-1950
Memorabilia of Lieutenant Colonel Sampson (“Sam”) Lloyd, RGH. Include
photographs of tanks and members of 2 RGH in the desert, British Forces
ID card, Christmas card and telegram, and text of memorial services
D4920/2/4/3/6
1941-1998
Memorial dedication to Sergeant Pilot D.E. Prior, killed near Coleford in
1941
D8089/1-7
1942
Diary of Captain P.D. Jacques [No.2 Troop, G Squadron, RGH], including
details of battle near Imiad, North Africa, and list of men in troop
D4920/2/4/3/5
1942
Letters from Lieutenant Colonel W.A.B. Trevor to Lieutenant Colonel J.A.T.
Miller, containing detailed account of the fighting in Egypt
D4920/
2/4/2/18
c.1942
Papers of Mike O’Neill [Sergeant, 2 RGH], including snapshots in the Middle
East and UK, one with his tank
D4920/2/4/3/9
c.1942-1989
Papers relating to Major Thomas Elder-Jones of H (Cheltenham) Squadron,
RGH, including an account of his service with 2nd RGH in Africa, c.1942;
also, obituary, 1989
D4920/2/4/3/3
c.1942, 1994
Photographs of grave of Sergeant “Chalky” White; with an account of his
death, 1994
D4920/2/4/3/9
[1942]
The Eagle’s Haunting: a survivor of HMS Eagle. The story of A G Partridge’s
experiences in the Mediterranean in 1942, written by his daughter
D9310
1943
Official letter regarding the death of Acting Leading Airman Norman
Whiteside
D3790/1/10
c.1943
Letters and photographs concerning Jack Hamilton Thomson of
Cheltenham, who died in North Africa in 1943
D10113
1943-45
Letters to Keith Forbes of Charlton Kings written by friends on active service
D7571/3
1946-48
Papers of an ex-soldier relating to his army service [Tewkesbury]
TBR D76
1947
Biographical details of Colonel W A Chester Master, o/c RGH
D4920/3/3/4
1947
Diary reference and news cutting relating to the marriage of the British
secret agent Odette Sansom GC to her fellow agent Captain Peter Churchill
D8831/4
1950
Correspondence and diagram, memorial to Lieutenant E.W.R. Mawhood,
Stone (d. 1944)
P315 CW 3/9
1964
Biographical notes on General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart VC (died 1963)
D492/3/3/6
1981
Councillor John Hughes and World War II by M. Paget
PA 76/5
1989
One Woman's War 39-45 by Barbara Steele
PA 209/18
1998
African Connections 1873-1943 by Henry Elwes: an account of the war
service of Major John Hargreaves Elwes
GE 339
Lists and Memorials, and War Graves
As with the First World War, the holdings of Gloucestershire Archives include extensive
material relating to war memorials, especially amongst the parish records. There are rolls of
honour and lists of those who served; records of the committees that were formed to raise
money for the memorials, including minutes and accounts; and correspondence with the
Imperial War Graves Commission. Photographs, drawings and plans may have survived of
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the memorials themselves and where the Church of England is involved, there is likely to be
a faculty. Finally, there may be a record of the service of dedication. Detailed research notes,
with lists of names, have been deposited relating to the RAF cemetery at Moreton-in-Marsh,
and to men from Moreton and Batsford who fell in the war [D8736].
Gloucestershire: general
c.1920-50
Photographs of Memorials to both World Wars built by H.H. Martyn & Co.,
Cheltenham
D6345/2/1
1939-45
Gloucestershire County Council employees killed on active service
CC/W
1945 D
(1939-1945)
Roll of Honour: typed list of men in 2nd RGH killed in action or died as a
result of active service
D4920/
2/4/2/1
(1939-1945)
Roll of Honour of officers and men who died in the War: includes those who
died with other units
D4576
1935-1952
Papers relating to the War Memorial in Gloucester Cathedral Close (a
plaque was added to the 1922 memorial in 1952), and to the Book of
Honour in St. Edmund's Chapel (1945)
D4920/
3/2/1-4
1941-1944
Copy of RGH Roll of Honour at RMC, Sandhurst (Berkshire)
D4920/
2/4/2/20
1941-52
Correspondence of the Dean of Gloucester concerning the County War
Memorial
D2150
1942-44
List of staff of Charles Oscar Dickens of Cheltenham, wholesale
tobacconists, serving in HM forces
D3790/1/10
1944-46
Index of armed forces personnel mainly from the Forest of Dean
D6503/4
1945-72
Gloucestershire County War Memorial Committee: minutes, 1945-54, lists
of subscribers, 1945-49, accounts, 1947-72, lists of war dead, c1947,
correspondence, 1946-72
D2888/1-11
1949
Correspondence concerning the exhumation of Belgian Service personnel
D6145/3/6
1949
Papers regarding dedication of war memorial to Old Cryptians
D9791/1/2
1952
Ceremony at the opening of the county war memorial
GPS 154/
11-18
1999-2000
Lists of RGH killed in action and their war cemeteries
D4920/3/5/12
1950-56
H H Martyn & Company: Photograph of base for flagpole at American war
cemetery and memorial, Cambridge
D6345/2/10
c.1952
H H Martyn & Company: photographs of Commando memorial at Spean
Bridge, Scotland, and in foundry, with news cuttings
D5922/3/5/3
D6345/2/13
Out-County
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Alphabetical by Parish
It is worth checking the catalogues of all parishes for further references
Acton Turville
Correspondence concerning extension plate to memorial, 1946-47
P4 CW 3/8
Aldsworth
Faculty for memorial tablet, 1948
P8 CW 3/3
Alvington
Order of dedication service for memorial [Woolaston and Alvington] 1948
P12 CW 3/9
Awre
Memorial fund papers, 1948
P30a
PC 35/1
Batsford
D8736/1/4
Berkeley
Research notes, copy photographs and photocopies of personal papers,
compiled for Moreton-in-Marsh and Batsford roll of honour, a
commemoration… by Ken Fowler and Guy Stapleton, 1999-2000
Lists of names on memorial, (1914-45)
Berkeley
Plans and elevations of proposed war memorial, 1947
D7942/87
Bledington
Faculty for memorial altar, 1949
P51 CW 3/2
Blockley
Roll of honour (1939-45)
D3471/302
Bream
Retrieving Wenty’s Sturty Bird: The Story of Bream Cenotaph 1921-2001 [I.
Hendy, 2001]
ROL E5
Cainscross
Faculty for memorial alterations, 1954
P68
CW 3/22
Cam
References to memorial in parish council minutes, 1951
P69a
PC 1/16
Charlton
Kings
Memorial faculty, 1950
P76
CW 3/8/11
Cheltenham
List of Cheltonians serving with H.M. Forces, 1940
D177/Box 70
Cheltenham
Proposal to erect a city hall and theatre on the site of the Spa, Cheltenham
as a war memorial, 1946
D3398/2/2/3
Cheltenham
Memorial faculty [Cheltenham St. Stephen] 1952
P78/12
CW 3/2
Cheltenham
Reports and correspondence relating to work on the memorial in the
quinquennial inspection [Cheltenham All Saints] 1957
P78/2
CW 3/21
Chipping
Campden
List of old scholars giving details of military service, Chipping Campden
Grammar School, 1943
D5390
Chipping
Campden
List of brethren at Chipping Campden Masonic Lodge who served in the
war, 1946
D7852/1/1/3
Clearwell
Correspondence, accounts, etc. concerning additions to memorial, 1949-52
P88 CW 3/9
Clearwell
Correspondence concerning the maintenance of war graves, 1968
P88
CW 3/16
Coates
Burial of four German airmen in churchyard, 1940
P92 IN 1/15
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P42
CW 3/21
Coberley
Memorial faculty, 1957
P105
CW 3/1
Coleford
Roll of honour [Coleford St. John] 1945
P93/1
CW 4/1
Coleford
Re-interment of Italian and German war casualties buried at Coleford, 1966
D7248/21
Cranham
Subscriptions list and balance sheet, memorial, 1950
P103
CW 3/11
Cromhall
Wartime service of villagers, c.1939-45
P104 MI 4
Didmarton
Address given at the unveiling of the names of casualties on the memorial,
1948
P114/1
CW 3/4
Dursley
War Memorial Committee minutes, 1949-73
P124a
PC 37/1
Dursley
Faculty for memorial inscription, 1949
P124
CW 3/13
Ewen
Maintenance of war graves [Kemble and Ewen] 1944-47
P186
PC 31/2
France Lynch
Agreement to maintain war graves, 1964
P150
CW 3/10
Gloucester
Gloucester cemetery: register of burials in war graves, including prisoners of
war, 1940-47 (indexed); list of earlier war graves, 1914-21
GBR
L4/4/4/5
Gloucester
Roll of honour, Lonsdale Road Methodist Chapel, Gloucester, 1940s
D2689/
2/4/39
Gloucester
Souvenir programme of Gloucester St. Peters' “Welcome Home” to exservice men and women, with roll of honour, 1947
D5467/2/12
Gloucester
Faculty for memorial tablet, Coney Hill [Gloucester St. Oswald] 1947
P154/20
CW 3/5
Gloucester
“Not just a name”: biographies of servicemen named on the St. Catherine’s
War Memorial, November 2004
P154/7
(acc 10190)
Guiting Power
Maintenance of war graves, 1975
P156
CW 3/11
Temple
Guiting
Temple
Guiting
Book of Remembrance
D8811
Memorial faculty, 1974
P157
CW 3/2/4
Hanham
Minutes of the Mount Memorial Sub-Committee, with details of the
dedication ceremony 1951
DA8/111/2
Hanham
Beacon lighting ceremony at the Mount Memorial 1951
DA8/291/1
Kemble
Draft petition for memorial, c.1945
P186
CW 3/1
Kemble
Maintenance of war graves [Kemble and Ewen] 1944-47
P186
PC 31/2
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Kings Stanley
Memorial correspondence and plans, 1952
P190
CW 3/1
Kings Stanley
Faculty for memorial renovation, 1966
P190
CW 3/5/2
Kingswood
Minutes, accounts and correspondence, memorial playing fields appeal,
1947-52
P193a
PC 37/1-3
Longhope
Planning application for addition to war memorial tablet, 1990
K1082/3/5
Lydbrook
Agreement concerning the maintenance of war graves, 1943
P208 IN 4/2
Lydney
List of names on the war memorial, 1994
PA209/20
Lydney
Photograph of memorial ceremony, 1982
GPS 209/23
Lydney
Roll of honour, 1939-45, compiled by Harold McOwan,1999
PA209/25
Marshfield
Correspondence concerning parish and county memorials, 1936-91
P213a
PC 35/1
Marshfield
Updating of memorial, 1947
P213
CW 3/13
Marshfield
Faculty for addition to memorial, 1950
P213
CW 3/6/4
Moreton-inMarsh
Research notes, copy photographs and photocopies of personal papers,
compiled for Moreton-in-Marsh and Batsford roll of honour, a
commemoration… by Ken Fowler and Guy Stapleton, 1999-2000
D8736/1/4
Nailsworth
Correspondence, minutes, reports, etc. concerning the erection of a clock
tower as a memorial 1945-52
DA11/132/2
Parkend
Memorial dedication service 1950
P245 IN 4/3
Patchway
Members of the armed forces, 1943
Q/Y 6/1/23
Prestbury
Memorial addition faculty 1950
P254
CW 3/23
Pucklechurch
Dedication of war memorial gates at the parish church, 1950
D8697/2/3
Rodborough
Rodborough Tabernacle: roll of honour
D4248/8/19
St. Briavels
Papers concerning the war memorial, 1990
K1801
Siddington
Memorial faculty 1952
P293
CW 3/8
Lower
Slaughter
Lower
Slaughter
Erection of a commemorative plaque, 1939-45, in village hall, 1993-96
D7999/4/3
Letters concerning repairs to memorial 1960-61
P296a
PC 3/4
Stone
Memorial faculty 1948
P315
CW 3/1
Stone
Correspondence and diagram, memorial to Lieutenant E.W.R. Mawhood (d.
1944) 1950
P315
CW 3/9
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Stroud
Lists of civilian deaths due to enemy action in Tewkesbury and in the district
council areas [Stroud and Thornbury] 1956
DA38/182/1
Stroud
Lists of civilian deaths due to enemy action in Tewkesbury and in the district
council areas [Stroud and Thornbury] 1956
DA38/182/1
Tewkesbury
Roll of honour, Tewkesbury Grammar School 1939-45
TBR D52/3
Tewkesbury
Dedication service for the old boys of Tewkesbury Grammar School killed in
the War and roll of honour, 1939-45
TBR D52/3
Tewkesbury
Correspondence with Imperial War Graves Commission, 1948-49
TBR B14/9
Tewkesbury
Remembrance garden, 1949-51
TBR B150
Tewkesbury
Lists of civilian deaths due to enemy action in Tewkesbury and in the district
council areas [Stroud and Thornbury]
DA38/182/1
Thornbury
Lists of civilian deaths due to enemy action in Tewkesbury and in the district
council areas [Stroud and Thornbury] 1956
DA38/182/1
Tibberton
Memorial faculty 1948
P332
CW 3/4
Tibberton
Names of parishioners killed c.1945
P332 MI 3
Tidenham
Correspondence concerning war memorial village hall 1950-70
P333a
PC 3/13
Toddington
Correspondence concerning German war graves, exhumation order, 196163
P335
CW 3/22
Twigworth
Correspondence concerning the Imperial War Graves Commission 1954-55
P342 IN 4/2
Twigworth
Estimate for work on memorial 1959-62
P342 VE 3/1
Twyning
Correspondence with the Imperial War Graves Commission
1955-75
P343
CW 3/11
Uley
Correspondence with the Glos. War Memorial Committee concerning the
compilation of lists of the fallen in both World Wars 1949
P345
CW 4/11
Upton St.
Leonards
List of men serving in the armed forces or killed in action, 1940s
D7094/
12, 16
Upton St.
Leonards
Plans and related papers concerning addition to the garden of
remembrance and restoration of the memorial 1962-66
P347b
PC 35/2
Westcote
Memorial faculties 1946
P356
CW 3/7
Willersey
Memorial faculty 1950
P367
CW 3/2
Withington
Memorial faculty 1949
P374
CW 3/7
Woolaston
Order of dedication service for memorial [Woolaston and Alvington] 1948
P12 CW 3/9
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Photographs and illustrations
c.1920-50
Memorials to both World Wars built by H.H. Martyn & Co., Cheltenham
D6345/2/1
D5922/3
c.1920c.1956
Gloster Aircraft Company - photograph album (indexed). Includes: types of
aircraft designed since c.1910; personalities; pilots; factory and staff;
certificates of aircraft performance, 1922-46; Schneider trophy contests
D4676/1/1
c.1921c.1954
Gloster Aircraft Company aircraft. Item 1/28, of a Gloster F 1940, is with a
group that includes Frank Whittle, c.1943. Other items
D4676/2-27
c.1930c.1990
Photograph album compiled by Jeremy Taylor, H Squadron RGH. Includes
photographs taken in India c.1930 and of the fighting unit in North Africa,
1941-42, and of the liberation of Holland, 1945
D4920/
2/4/3/12
1939-1943
German aerial photographs of bombing targets in Gloucestershire
D3558/114
1939-1945
Photograph album compiled by A.H. Stanton, 2nd Lieutenant RGH (1939)
including active service in Egypt, 1941-42
D4920/
2/4/3/11
[1939-1945]
Police on gas training course
Q/Y 6/1/93
1940
Whiteshill, Ruscombe and Randwick Home Guard
P363 MI 1/1
1940
Girl Guides in War Weapons Week parade, Chipping Campden
D7107/10/3
1940
Special constables at St. Marks, Cheltenham
Q/Y 6/1/57
c.1940
Guard pillbox disguised as a hayrick, Tewkesbury
D5274
c.1940
Unidentified group, thought to be members of the Gloucestershire Home
Food Production Society
D7324/1
c.1940
Fire watching volunteers in training
GPS 613/10
c.1940
Lieutenant Colonel N.A. Birley [Commanding Officer 2nd RGH 1940-42]
D4920/2/4/3/1
1940
Whiteshill, Ruscombe and Randwick Home Guard
P363 MI 1/1
(1940s?)
Studio portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Turner DSO, with Home Guard
arm band
D4920/
2/4/3/13
1940s
Home Guard (Forest Division?), including Edward Groves of Tibberton, at
the Spa Pavilion, Gloucester
D10366
1940-1941,
1993
“F” Squadron, 2nd RGH, including a Crusader tank in the desert. Plus,
correspondence with Mike O’Neill
D4920/2/4/2/4
1940-48
RASC Horse Transport Dept. serving in Palestine: staff, horses,
headquarters
D3574/6
1941
Photograph of Gloucester Oil Mills Home Guard
GPS 613/25
1941
Snapshot portraits of members of the Gloucester Home Guard (5th
Battalion)
D2095/2
c.1941
Men of 2nd RGH in the desert, including James Scarrot
D4920/2/4/2/5
(c.1941)
Tank crew from HQ troop, on a Crusader tank in the desert
D4920/2/4/2/6
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1941
“H” Squadron, 2nd RGH
D4920/
2/4/2/7-8
1941
United service for War Weapons Week, Painswick
D5023/4/6
c.1941
Stroud Home Guard
GPS 320/133
[1941]
Frampton-on-Severn Home Guard parading past memorial
GPS 149/68
c.1941
Lance Corporal Peter Hooper, RGH
D4920/2/4/3/4
1941-1942
Photographs taken by Major Gerald Granfield Boyd of RGH and Royal
Wiltshire Yeomanry in the desert campaigns
Tetbury Troop, G Squadron RGH, in Libya and Egypt
D4920/2/4/3/2
c.1941-1950
Tanks in the Western Desert and 2 RGH in the Middle East (from the
memorabilia of Major Sampson Llewellyn Lloyd)
D4920/2/4/3/6
1942
2nd RGH in the desert [album and individual snapshots]
D4920/
2/4/1/19,
21, 23
1942
“F” Squadron, 2 RGH, after the surrender of Halfaya, Libya
D4920/
2/2/3/9/4
1942
Sergeant Charles A’Bear, “H” Squadron, RGH
D4920/2/4/3/9
(1942)
2nd RGH in the Middle East, including Sergeant Mike O’Neil with his tank
D4920/2/4/3/9
(1942)
Major J. Sinnott (Officer Commanding “G” squadron)
D4920/2/4/3/9
Early 1940s
Gloucester Area Home Guard officers and wives at dinner dance
GPS 613/12
1943
Members of the armed forces, Patchway
Q/Y 6/1/23
1943
The Gloster Aircraft Division of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade: parade
past factory
GPS 154/929
1943
5th (Gloucester) Battalion, Home Guard, “P” Platoon, Shire Hall, Gloucester
CC/V 6/3
c.1943
703 Squadron RAF football team, Eastington
D3489/11
1943-1944
Gloster Aircraft (Hucclecote factory) Typhoon manufacture
D5922
(acc 9160)
[1943-1944]
Scenes of life at Slimbridge potato harvesting camp at New Grounds,
including Italian prisoners of war
D5852/1/3
1944
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry: group of men and tanks, prior to sailing for Italy
D4920/2/4/3/2
1944, n.d.
“C” Company and no. 32 Platoon, Painswick Home Guard
D5023/3/7
[1944]
US soldiers billeted at Clanna, Alvington: group snapshot
GPS 12/22
c.1944
“Firefly” Sherman and Cromwell tanks and crew
P373 MI 3
[1944]
7th Battalion (Stroud) Home Guard
D5023/3/7
[1944]
Scenes showing life in Wotton-on-Edge, including billeting, policing, medical
care, etc..
GPS 379/
81-127,
130-134
(1941-1942)
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D4920/3/5/2
1944-45
Photographs of British Eastern Fleet, Pipeline Under the Ocean (PLUTO),
and other marine supply operations in France and North Africa
D548/3/32, 33
1945
VE Day tea and sports, Lower Slaughter
D2600/25
1945
War Reserve constables at Gloucester Station, at the end of the war
D4609
1945
Crowd and policemen, celebrating peace
Q/Y 6/3/36
1945
Gloucestershire Civil Defence bomb reconnaissance officers
Q/Y 6/1/95
1940s
Men and women serving in the armed forces: snapshots and portraits
D2689/2/4/39
n.d.
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: photographs of visit of
Queen Mary
D4791/17/3
p.237-244
1945
Gloucester VE Day decorations
D5749/
265/3-4
1948
RGH at review by HM King George VI in Hyde Park
D4920/2/5/5
c.1948
European refugees receiving aid from relief agencies
P228 MI 19
1950-1956
H H Martyn & Company: Photograph of base for flagpole at American war
cemetery and memorial, Cambridge
D6345/2/10
1952
Ceremony at the opening of the county war memorial
GPS 154/
11-18
c.1963
Italian war memorial at Coalway (Wynolls Hill)
D3921/II/4/1
1982
Memorial ceremony, Lydney
GPS 209/23
1998
RGH graves at Gallipoli
D4920/3/5/10
2000
Reminders of War along the Cotswolds: transparencies
D8855
1936-77
Planning correspondence concerning aerodromes and airports in
Gloucestershire
K1054
1938-40
Correspondence concerning colour film research based in Antwerp and the
impact of the war
D540/F56, 58
1939
Printed explanatory note and notice to men called up
D3716/1-2
1939
Wartime emergency timber sales
D540/E63
1939-46
Gift to Upton St. Leonards man in gratitude for war service, c1945; list of
Upton St. Leonards men serving in the armed forces or killed in action,
1940s; accounts of Upton St. Leonards returned forces fund, 1945-46;
poem concerning a bombed Cotswold factory, 1940s; enrolment card in
Women's Voluntary Service for ARP, 1939
D7094/12,16
1940
Rev A.M. Hollis's stipend while serving as forces chaplain [Charlton Kings]
P76 IN 3/6
1940
WESTRAF vol. 1, no. 1, November 1940, ed. Flying Officer F.W. Nadal
MI 34
1940-43
Correspondence concerning conscientious objectors
CCDa/V/2/11
Miscellaneous
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1942
Rural Dean's letter concerning regulations for the marriages of US
servicemen
P33 IN 4/1
1942
Adoption of warship by parish council [Lower Slaughter]
P296a
PC 3/11
1942-43
German army badges of rank
D4527/2,3,9
c.1942-45
Papers relating to the printing dept. of Rotol Ltd., c1942-45 (including an
issue of The Boys in Blue, produced by the military wing of Gloucester
Hospital, 1944)
D7233/1
[?1943]
10 shilling note issued in Tunisia by the Allied Military Government,
Occupied Territory
D4889/27
1944
Gloucestershire Football Association Wartime Handbook
D5244/1/2
1944-46
Index of armed forces personnel
D6503/4
1946
Correspondence concerning war pensions
TBR C3/22
1986
Correspondence from Dorothy Kendall Pearson and printed material
concerning the service for the officers and ratings of HMS Gloucester, sunk
in 1941, including programme
D3558/184
1986
“What were the location factors of the 2nd World War airfield on the
Cotswolds?” (“A” level project)
D7992/1/45
c1980s
The “Side by Side” projects undertaken by Whitecross School, Lydney,
including newspaper reports concerning local men in the Far East;
“Conditions in prisoner of war camps” by Lynn Crawford
D5724/1/1, 3
n.d.
College of Arms archive stored at Thornbury Castle during the war
D5037/7/7
n.d.
Service awards
CCDa/11/6
Records held elsewhere
The National Archives
TNA have published (1998) “The Second World War: A Guide to Documents in the Public
Record Office” [J.D. Cantwell], a copy of which is available for reference in the searchroom
library of Gloucestershire Archives (ROL D5).
Useful records held by TNA include the following:
The Home Front
Policy papers, including of the Cabinet Office, Home Office, War Office, Ministry of
Labour, Ministry of Home Security and Ministry of Education
Selected propaganda posters, postcards, booklets and leaflets
Index to the lost original service records of the Women’s Land Army
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Operational records
Various narratives and reports
War Cabinet’s minutes, memoranda and daily situation reports
Records of Cabinet committees including on defence
Secretariat files, listing the personal interventions of the Prime Minister in operational
matters
Minutes of the War Office Council and Army Council
Headquarters papers
Unit war diaries
Reports of War Office directorates (on intelligence, training, air, artillery, etc.)
Orders of battle
Private papers of senior officers
War crimes
Documentation of the United Nations War Crimes Commission in the Political
Department of the Foreign Office
Records of the War Office and War Crimes Branch of the Treasury Solicitor’s
Department, including case files of the War Crimes Group
War crimes files of the Military Department of the Judge Advocate General’s Office
Various policy papers
Files relating to charges of war crimes in the Pacific front
Home Office Constitutional (A) Division:
This department holds the records of Air Raid Precautions personnel and the National Fire
Service for the period 1939-45.
Post-War Civil Defence: The Cold War
The Cold War period between 1945 and the 1990s saw Britain and her NATO allies ranged
against, the Soviet Bloc. It was marked by constant tension between East and West Europe,
and the concurrent threat of nuclear attack, reflected here in the records of local authority
Civil Defence committees. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) were involved in
protests against both the British independent nuclear deterrent and the presence of
American bases in the United Kingdom.
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A special “bomb proof” bunker was built after World War II at Ullenwood, for use as a control
and command centre in the event of a nuclear war. It was constructed on the site of a U.S.
military hospital that had been used during both World Wars, the old wooden huts remaining
around the bunker area. The County Council purchased the site in 1963 for use by its
Emergency Planning section, which administered it until 1994. Gloucestershire Archives
used it for storage from 1993-1997 (being responsible for its administration from 1994-97),
after which it was administered by Fire & Rescue and used for training purposes until sold by
the County Council in 2003.
Records held at Gloucestershire Archives
1946-1959
Miscellaneous papers concerning the organization of Civil Defence in
Gloucestershire including recruitment, training and premises
CC/CDb/1-5
1946-1964
Correspondence [Awre]
P30a PC
10/13
1949-1954
General committee minutes [Thornbury]
DA38/111/2-4
1949-1955
Circulars and correspondence [Stroud]
DA16/
233/9-11
1949-1955
Civil Defence Committee minutes [North Cotswold]
DA23/119/12
1949-1967
Civil Defence Committee minutes [Lydney]
DA28/118/2
1950-1956
Civil Defence Committee [Cirencester]
DA4/119/3
1950-1956
Civil Defence Subcommittee minutes [Stroud]
DA35/119/4
1950-1959
General committee minutes [Sodbury]
DA33/
111/22-27, 30
1950-1966
Civil Defence Committee minutes [Northleach]
DA31/118/2
1950-1967
Civil Defence and Civil Defence Corps [Dursley]
DA26/230-31
1951
Cheltenham Borough Surveyor's reports to the Civil Defence Committee
CBR C5/1/3/1
1951, 1952
Gloucestershire ARP schemes
CC/A/CDb 1/1
1953
Wrongful dismissal of Civil Defence administrator [Cirencester]
DA4/140/29
1956
Civil Defence vol 8 nos. 3 & 4 [Lydney]
DA28/232
1956-1957
Industrial Civil Defence Gazette
D6327/4
1956-1958
Gloucester division of the Civil Defence Corps: newsletters
D540/F33
1956-1957
Lease of Corn Hall premises for use as Civil Defence headquarters
DA4/41
1956-1965
Civil Defence Committee minutes [Charlton Kings]
DA3/119/1
1956-1967
Control file [Nailsworth]
DA11/133/6
1960
Civil Defence maps relating to the Warden’s Shield competition
K1862
1962-1963
Papers concerning land requirements for government departments in the
Cirencester and Tewkesbury area
K1862
1962-1967
Civil Defence Committee minutes [Dursley]
DA26/119/6
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1962-1985
Papers relating to Fairford U.S. station
K1851
1963
Advising the householder on protection against nuclear attack
Q/Y 7/77
1963
The Gloucestershire Defender Vol. 8 No.1
MI 58
1964
Circulars concerning civil defence dispersal and billeting arrangements
DA38/182/2
1964
Taped interview with County Councillor Dudley Aldridge and Lieutenant
Colonel Brooking about the use of Ullenwood for civil defence training
purposes
D6112
[tape 20]
1965-1968
Civil Defence correspondence [Lydney]
DA28/231
1967
Civil Defence Corps: enrolment forms and record cards [Lydney]
DA28/230
1967-71
Plan [Nailsworth]
DA11/133/17
1960s
Police guidelines concerning the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Q/Y 2/2/17
1968
Photograph of RGH Yeomen digging a nuclear shelter in Bovington, Dorset
D4920/2/5/91
1980
Home Office circular on Protection Against Nuclear Weapons and draft
scheme for “self-help arrangements”
CC/A/
CDb/2/12-13
1982-86
Town Clerk's correspondence with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
“peace camp” at U.S. airbase [Fairford]
P141a
PC 10/8
1982-93
Correspondence [Cutsdean]
P106a
PC 10/4
1988-96
County Council Emergency Management Team minutes, papers and
reports, including County War Plan
K1824, K1844
2003
How GCHQ came to Cheltenham [P. Freeman]
MI 54
The Korean War, 1950-1953
The Gloucestershire Regiment played a significant part in the War against communist North
Korea and its Chinese allies. It bore the brunt of the mass assault by Chinese forces south of
the Imjin River in April 1951. After four days of heavy fighting the survivors were ordered to
break out – but only 40 of the Glosters reached safety. The remainder were taken prisoner
and remained as POWs for the rest of the War. The Commanding Officer, Lieutenant
Colonel J.P. Carne, and Lieutenant P. Curtis were awarded the Victoria Cross.
The Gloucestershire Collection includes newspaper and magazine cuttings, concerning
the Gloucester Regiment's service in the Korean War. See the section in this Guide on The
Gloucestershire Regiment.
The Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum has a list of all combatants (the Imjin Roll) and
information on POWs.
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The Suez Crisis, 1956
This short war was prompted by Nasser’s nationalization of the Suez Canal. It saw conflict
between Egypt and Israel, and Anglo-French landings in the Canal Zone. It precipitated an
international crisis as both the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union objected to the action taken by
Britain and France.
1956
Papers concerning visits to Stroud Group of Secondary Schools by army
recruiting vans
D7136/1/4/19
1956-59
National Service hostel at Bridgend, Stonehouse used as a hostel for
refugees from Suez, 1956-59; petrol rationing as a result of the Suez Crisis,
1956
D5277/
5/7, 10
The Six Day War in the Middle East, 1967
1967
Notes and cuttings
D3435/25
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CONSPIRACIES & RIOTS
The Gunpowder Plot, 1605
1605
Reference to the “Execrable Treason” in the Kemerton Parish Register
P187 IN 1/1
1745-54
Bells rung at the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot
P102 CW 2/1
1823
Regulations applied to the Gunpowder Plot celebrations at Stroud
D4693/14
The Popish Plot, 1678-80
1679-80
Assessments for parishes in the hundred of Oswaldston, Worcestershire for
paying and disbanding forces raised
D1727/6
c.1680
Order to search houses of suspected persons (list appended) and seize
arms “because of an horrid designe of murthering His Most Sacred Majesty
and His Royal Highness the Duke of York”
D4693/14
The Gordon Riots, 1780
1780
Letters to Major General Wyngard, commanding officer at the Tilt Yard,
referring to the riots
D1833/
F15/1-18
1780
Letters from Lord Stormont [Secretary of State] giving a list of houses in
danger from the riot; and referring to the protection of Lord Mansfield’s
house in Bloomsbury Square, and his own
D1833/
F16-17
1780
Letters to Lord Amherst requesting protection, from the Duke of Queensbury
and Lord North
D1833/F18
1780
Printed proclamation relating to the riots, with correspondence
D1833/
F19/1-5
1780
The seizure of Lord George Gordon (sent to the Tower)
D2857/
2/18/76
1780
Coloured wash drawing by Charles Rooke showing 3rd Guards encamped
in St. James’s Park during the Gordon Riots
D1833/Z8
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Emmet’s Rebellion, 1803
This was an abortive rising in Dublin organised by the Irish Nationalist, Robert Emmet, who
had reorganised the United Irish Society following the failed Rebellion of 1798. He was tried
and executed in September 1803.
1803
The speech of Robert Emmet Esq. delivered at the Sessions House, Dublin
MS51
1976
Robert Emmet: the insurrection of July 1803 by Geraldine Hume and
Anthony Malcomson
MI 28
The Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820
This failed plot to murder the Cabinet was led by Arthur Thistlewood.
1820
Letter referring to the Cato Street Conspiracy
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D2227/32
MILITARY BUILDINGS
Castles and Forts [SOME OUT-COUNTY]
Archcliff Fort, Dover, Kent
1776
Letters from Joseph Dussaux at Archcliff Fort, Dover, to Captain James
Blathwayt (6th Regiment of Foot)
D1799/C16
Bamburgh Castle
1761
Description of work done at the Castle in letters to Judith Sharp
D3549/9/1/4
1770
Expenses of building work at the Castle
D3549/16/1/1
Berkeley Castle
Late
19th/early
20th century
Photographs of Berkeley Castle
D6919/10/3
[c.1900-10]
Photographs of Berkeley Castle
GPS 42/
30-36, 39-46
[c.1910]
Postcard views of Berkeley Castle
GPS 42/70-80
[1960-70]
Berkeley: slides of the Castle, with details of furnishings and antiquities
D3867/
IV/I/1052410539
1964-75
Photographs of Berkeley Castle (uncatalogued)
D8336/G-B-2
n.d.
Drawing of Berkeley Castle
D1009 folio 1
Beverstone Castle
1753-1842
Estate papers, including items relating to Beverstone Castle (uncatalogued)
D2440/
Box 18
(1886)
Notes on Beverstone Castle (reprint of BGAS Transactions)
D690/XII/5
c.1910, 1978
Photographs of Beverstone Castle
GPS 43/
8-10, 13-15
1964-75
Photographs of Beverstone Castle (uncatalogued)
D8336/G-B-2
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Brimpsfield Castle
1975
Brimpsfield castle: archaeological survey, with illustrations, by D.B. Rudman
and P.R. Jillings
D4469/7
[c.1284-1408]
Photocopy accounts of the constables of Bristol Castle, (c1284-1408)
PC/1886
1982
Accounts of the Constables of Bristol Castle, ed. Margaret Sharp
ROL B4
n.d.
Bristol Castle 1968-70, by M.W. Ponsford - excavations
AR/65
Bristol Castle
Chepstow Castle
1883
Annals of Chepstow Castle, by John Fitchett Marsh
ROL G5
Crickley Hill Fort
1972-85
File of news cuttings relating to the archaeology of the (Iron Age) fort
D7979/4/4
Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Somerset
n.d.
Ministry of Works booklet
D3921/V/50
Gloucester Castle
(1696)
Photocopy petition for merciful treatment made by Abraham Sanford, a poor
criminal, held at Gloucester Castle, to Gloucester's J.P.
PC/1891
(c.1786)
Photocopy of old County Gaol in part of Gloucester Castle
PC/1182
1837-68
Gloucester Castle shown on plans
Q/Rum
155, 166,
168, 171,
236,
361/1183768
1888, c.1965
Gloucester Prison: papers relating to the militia barracks, drill ground and
County rifle armoury
CC/AA 32-33
Goodrich Castle
1901-48
Pamphlets and postcards concerning Goodrich Castle
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D3921/V/46
Grosmont Castle, Monmouth
n.d.
Ministry of Works booklet
D3921/V/50
Hatherop Castle
c.1910
Postcards of Hatherop Castle
GPS 169/8, 9
1850, 1856,
c.1867-1910
Ground plan of Hatherop Castle by Henry Clutton, with cutting from The
Builder including a print of the house. Various plans of house, 1867, and
gardens, 1869 etc.
D540/P22-23
Maiden Castle [hill fort] Dorset
n.d.
Ministry of Works booklet
D3921/V 50
Ruardean Castle
(1608) 1960s
Notes, photographs and photostats relating to the history of Ruardean
Castle
D3921/III/25
Segontium Roman Fort, Caernarvon
n.d.
Ministry of Works booklet
D3921/V/50
St. Briavels Castle
(1290 and
1375)
(1341)
Photostats and transcripts of accounts of works at St. Briavels Castle
D3921/I/16
Notes on, and transcript of, Exchequer inquisition into the value of the
manor and castle of St. Briavels, (1247-1341)
D3921/I/8
(1608-29)
Photostats of grants and subgrants of St. Briavels Castle and the Forest of
Dean to the Earl of Pembroke, (1608-29)
D3921/I/5
1660-c.1662
Papers concerning the Forest of Dean including order to John Wade to take
wood for repairs to the Castle and to John Witt to take Thomas Doning of
Pyrton, carpenter, and view timber needed for repairs
D2026/X20
1755
Appointment of Matthew, Lord Ducie as Constable of the Castle of St.
Briavels [Great seal of George II]
D340a/X8
(1775) c.1955
c.1803
Photographs, notes and news cuttings concerning St. Briavels Castle,
D3921/III/26
Print showing the Castle from A Collection of Gloucestershire Antiquities by
S Lysons
D4764/4/33
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19th century
Historical notes, with notes of sources and tracing plan of the ground floor
and other details, St. Briavels Castle
P278
MI 4, 5, 12,
14
c.1910
Photograph of St. Briavels Castle
GPS 278/2
n.d.
Extract from The History of the King's Works, vol. II, by H.M. Colvin,
concerning St. Briavels Castle
D3921/II/25
Skenfrith Castle, Monmouth
n.d.
Ministry of Works booklet, annotated by Dr. Cyril Hart
D3921/V/50
Sudeley Castle
1645-19th
century
Estate papers, c1727-1889, plans, 19th century, deeds, etc., 1645-1865,
Sudeley Castle (uncatalogued – refer to box list for sub-divisions)
D2579
c.1803
Print showing the Castle from A Collection of Gloucestershire Antiquities by
S Lysons
D4764/4/33
1805
Engraving of Sudeley Castle and chapel
D2218/3/56
c.1900
Glass negative of gateway to Sudeley Castle
GPS 321/9
1932
Photograph of bullet marks made by Roundheads on the Belfry Tower
D2218/3/57
c.1950s
Aerial view, Sudeley
D4402 /5/3
1970
Guide to Sudeley Castle
D3558/43
1970
Sudeley: slides of the Castle – exterior views
D3867/
IV/I/1173911746
1974
Sudeley: slides of the Castle – exterior and interior views
D3867/
IV/I/1458914595
1975
Photograph(s) of Sudeley Castle (uncatalogued)
D8336/
Box 84
Thornbury Castle
1582/83,
17th cent.
Survey of Thornbury manor and castle, giving room details, with 17th
century copy
D108/
M122-123,
E1
1738-40
Payments for repairs, Thornbury Castle
D108/M130
1745
Inventory of goods at Thornbury Castle
D108/E1
1839
The history of Thornbury Castle, by R. Ellis
ROL F5
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19th-20th
cents.
Notes on the history of Thornbury Castle, with programmes, etc. for events
held there
D4764/3/1-4
c.1900
Thornbury Castle and its owners, by Lady Rachel Howard
ROL F5
c.1910
Postcard, Thornbury Castle
D3476
c.1910
Photographs of Thornbury Castle
GPS 330/521
20th century
Drawings of Thornbury Castle made by Miss Mary Bruton
D4764/7/2
c.1965-70
Photographs of Thornbury Castle
DA38/295/4
1981, 1992
Photograph(s) of Thornbury Castle (uncatalogued)
D8336/
Box 33
Warwick Castle, Warwickshire
Late 19th
century
Photograph of Warwick Castle
D7916
Page 17
White Castle, Monmouth
n.d.
Ministry of Works booklet
D3921/V/50
Castles – general
1768
Observations on Welsh Castles
MF 357/1
1980
A Gazetteer Castle in Britain: vol 1, part 15, Gloucestershire, by M.J.
Jackson
ROL H20
World War II Defences
n.d.
List of concrete pillboxes built in Tewkesbury in 1940, with location map.
Includes photograph of one disguised as a hayrick
D5274
1949-61
Sites of anti-aircraft gun emplacements
K1003/4
2000
Reminders of War along the Cotswolds – transparencies
(also available on the searchroom intranet)
D8855
Barracks, Camps, Drill Halls, Armouries & Stores
1749
Order for licensing of gunpowder warehouses at Westbury-on-Trym
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Q/SO6
1776
Deed of a house in Cirencester used as a storehouse
D2190/2
1842
Reference in deed to guard house, Parliament Street, Stroud
D1347/T2
1855
Awards concerning provisions for the repair of militia storehouses
QT/FR
1860-69
Correspondence and papers concerning alterations to Cirencester armoury,
1860-63, 68-69; letter and plan concerning proposed repairs, Gloucester,
1869
L/C
1888
Barracks and county rifle armoury on plan
AA/B32
1894-1912
Agreements concerning barracks at Gloucester and Cirencester
CC/A
2, 3, 6, 7
c.1900
Photograph with Gloucester Barracks in background
GPS 611/3
1910
Sale particulars, Engineers' Drill Hall and parade ground, Cheltenham, 1910
D4858/2/1/6
1933,1947
Architects' plans and drawings: drill hall, Painswick Road, Gloucester, 1933,
The Barracks, Gloucester, 1947
D2593
1938-41
Architectural plans, etc., Drill Hall, Moreton-in-Marsh (uncatalogued)
D5587
Box 55
1947
Site of Highnam Court for school of military engineering and bridge
construction
K1003/2
1950s
Photographic negatives of Cirencester Barracks
GPS 86/
151, 152
1954-65
Plans of Matson Reservoir Camp, Robinswood Barracks
D7040
1970
Aerial photograph of housing development area, Robinswood Barracks
GBR
L6/30/50
1974
Plans of Ministry of Defence property in Gloucestershire
K693/6
Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst (Berkshire)
1816-1817
Pencil sketch of the college and printed regulations
D1571/F450
1841-42
An account of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in General Sir George
Whitmore’s Reflections
D45/F46
n.d.
H H Martyn & Company: photograph of memorial at the RMC
D5922/3/3/14
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MISCELLANEOUS
MISCELLANEOUS: INDIVIDUALS
This section charts the commissions, personal careers and observations of individuals
whose records are held at Gloucestershire Archives.
The principal collections held by the Record Office are: The military service records of the
Whitmore family of Lower Slaughter, 18th-19th centuries, including albums belonging to
General George Whitmore, partly comprising cartoons of military colleagues, late 18th
century-1836 [D45]. The military records of General James Bucknall Bucknall Estcourt in
Canada, the Middle East and the Crimea, 1824-55, and of the naval career of Walter
Grimston Bucknall Estcourt [D1571]. The correspondence and political papers of William
Blathwayt as Secretary at War, etc., 1662-1716, with the military papers of other members of
the Blathwayt family, 1771-1871 [D1799] some uncatalogued). Correspondence of the
Rooke family on military matters, 17th-19th centuries [D1833], including letters and
dispatches of the Duke of Wellington.
Correspondence and papers of Colonel Cyprian Bridge of Cheltenham, 1826-65, including
descriptions of military operations against the Maoris, New Zealand [D2025 Box 113].
Letters and papers relating to Lieut. Edwin Henry Neale, 1805-31[D2025 Box 46]. Diaries,
personal and military papers of Colonel A.B. Lloyd Baker, 1897-1979 [D3549]. Papers
concerning Lieutenant Colonel Hector MacLaine, 1803-46, and Lieutenant Hector MacLaine,
1843-83 [D3330/Boxes 16, 19-21 and 24]. Papers of Captain Edmund Bond, 1735-50
[D2026 X36-44]. There are also some papers relating to Major General James Wolfe,
including letters written on campaign against Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender, 1745-46
[D1571/F715]. Papers of the Lysons family feature the careers of General Sir Daniel Lysons
and his son, Colonel Henry Lysons VC [D8460].
This section also includes an important collection of papers relating to the brothers James
and Gerard Ducarel and their service in India in the second half of the 18th century [D2091].
They feature references to Robert, Lord Clive and Warren Hastings, and to the wars of that
period.
c. 97A.D.
Photographs (1978) of diplomas and discharge for a Roman Legion soldier,
Lucconi, of the Dobunni [from an original in the National Museum, Budapest,
Hungary]
D5555/4/5
1611
Agreement resigning the captaincy of a company of foot to John Huntley
D48/T73
c.1643-45
Expenses of John Chamberlayne of Maugersbury for quartering troops
TRS/10
1689-1872
Commissions of John Mullings in the 9th Glos. Rifle Corps., 1867, 72;
commission of Alexander Cobham of Binfield as Deputy Lieutenant for
Berkshire, 1786; commission of Richard W.P. Curzon as Lieutenant in the
1st Grenadier Regiment, 1838; commission of John How as Deputy
Lieutenant for Monmouth, 1689 (all uncatalogued)
D2019
1702
Letters Patent appointing William Blathwayt as Secretary at War
D2659/118
1709
Tailor pressed for army service
D3549/3/2/4
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1715
Commission for Walter Nourse as Captain in the Red Regiment of Militia
[Forest Division]
D332/F2
1715
Commission of Giles Nash as Lieutenant in the White Regiment of Militia
D1637/Z1
1715
Commission of Christopher Bond as Captain of militia
D2026/X34
1715
Appointment of Thomas Hodges, gentleman, as Ensign of the company of
the Red Regiment of Militia Foot raised in the Forest of Dean
D18/201
1715
Appointment of Thomas Locke as ensign, Green Regiment of Militia Foot
D4348
1715
Appointment of Nathan Izod of Westington as Lieutenant of the Green
Regiment of Militia Foot
D5042/X9
1718
Letter from William, 1st Earl Cadogan concerning the purchase of a
company in the Guards
D340a/
C20/16
Post 1724
Colonel Robert Munro’s request to the King for command of the regiment in
the Leeward Islands (lately commanded by Colonel Lucas) or for the
government of Barbados or Carolina
D340a/
C20/16
1724, 1727
Commissions of John Burnett as Captain in General Grove’s Regiment
D1799/F135
1727-28,
1733, 1745,
1752
Diaries of Gabriel Lepipre (probably in the Scots Guards), with some entries
relating to military duties
D1799/
F311-315
1728-59
Commissions for Thomas Chamberlayne as Ensign in a Foot regiment,
1728/29, Lieutenant in an independent Foot regiment in the island of
Providence, 1730/31 (and for Thomas Jnr.), and as Cornet to the 11th
Regiment of Dragoons, 1759
D621/X3
1731
Soldier's travel pass to Gloucester [Gloucester St. Michael]
P154/14 MI 1
1735-50
Papers concerning Captain Edmund Bond (1710-63) of Redbrook. Include
commissions as Ensign in Colonel George Read’s Regiment, 1735; 1st
Lieutenant in Colonel Powlett’s Marine Regiment of Foot, 1741; Captain in
Major-General Read’s regiment of Foot, 1743. Also, in relation to taking
recruits out to Gibraltar and Minorca, 1744, and raising a troop for action
against the Young Pretender, 1745 – with muster rolls and accounts
D2026/
X36-44
1738-1814
Biographical notes concerning General Sir Thomas Musgrave 7th Bart.
D2383/F6
1745, 1750
Commissions of Christopher Bond as Captain in the Earl of Berkeley’s
Regiment of Foot, 1745; as Captain in Sir Charles Powlett’s Regiment of
Foot, 1750
D2026/X35
1745-1840
Papers relating to Major General James Wolfe
D1571/
F715-725
1746
Commission of Nigel Kingscote as Captain in the Earl of Berkeley’s
Regiment
D471/X2
1756
Commission of Duncomb Colchester as Lieutenant in the 19th Regiment of
Foot
D36/T59
1760
Appointment of Gustavus Guydickens as Lieutenant in the 6th (Inniskilling)
Regiment of Dragoons; and as Lieutenant in the 3rd Foot Guards
D4582/3/9,11
1767-1798
Papers concerning James Ducarel and Gerard Gustavus Ducarel and their
military service in India. Include references to Lord Clive
D2091/F9-14
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1776
Nomination of Captain James Blathwayt as officer to embark with recruits
for America, with letter relating to arrival of recruits from Coventry
D1799/F69
1776
Letters from Joseph Dussaux at Archcliff Fort, Dover, to Captain James
Blathwayt (6th Regiment of Foot)
D1799/C16
1776-1837
Commissions of General Robert Phillips
D2025
1797, 1803
Commission of John Nourse as Major in the Provincial Cavalry,
Herefordshire, 1797, and as Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the
Archenfield Volunteer Infantry, Herefordshire, 1803
D332/F2
1780
Letter from James Rooke of Coleford advising against the transfer of Mr
Shurman, an ensign (officer) to another regiment
D214 F1/16
1780-95
Letters from W.A. Oliver, mainly requesting money for the purchase of
commissions
D214/
F1/16, 56,
59, 63, 142,
145, 148,
160
1785
Letter from W.A. Oliver asking for money to pay “regimentals” on joining
recruits for service in Jamaica
D214 F1/63
1789-1841
Reminiscences and anecdotes written by General Sir George Whitmore,
mainly concerning Malta and Corfu, but also mentioning incidents in
Gibraltar and Cadiz; also, sketch books featuring landscapes and cartoons
(of military colleagues)
D45/
F41-43, F54,
58
1789-1799
Commission of John Wallington as Lieutenant in the Dursley Gentlemen &
Yeomanry; and as Deputy Lieutenant
D149/
F149-150
1793
Commission of Robert Ladbrooke as Ensign in the North Gloucester Militia
D471/X2
(1793-1795)
Transcribed letters and journals of secretary to Sir Gilbert Elliot on
diplomatic service in Toulon and Corsica
D5626/15/4
1795
Commission of Major General Wynter Blathwayt as Colonel of the 27th
Regiment of Light Dragoons
D1799/F116
1797
Commission of Humphrey Austin as Captain of the Wotton Troop of
Gloucestershire Yeomanry
D1770/1
1798
Commission as Cornet in the Malmesbury Troop of the Wiltshire Yeomanry
D1571/X7
1799
Letter resigning commission in the Devizes Yeomanry, Wiltshire
D1571/F656
18th century
Copy letter from a condemned soldier to his sweetheart
D4582/7/13
c.1800
Will of Philip Guy of 84th Regiment of Foot, made at Goa, bequeathing his
share of “Prize Money for the capture of the Cape of Good Hope and all its
dependants”
D149/T1149
1801
Payment for purchase of an army commission
D2857/2/6/86
1801-1805
Papers concerning General Sir George Whitmore and his service in
Gibraltar and the Caribbean
D45/X7/1-5
1802
Letters concerning Charles Wallington's army commission
D149/F151
1805
Appointment of a Lieutenant of the Tyrone militia
D3893/11/2
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1805-1851
Letters and papers relating to Lieutenant E. H. Neal, including commission
as Ensign
D2025
Box 46
1806
Commission of John Singleton Clarke as lieutenant in the Devizes corps of
Wiltshire Volunteers
D2025
Box 113
1806
Commission of J Heskins as Lieutenant in the Tetbury and Horsley
Volunteers
D2424/16
1806-18
Accounts of Major General Pye and Richard Smith with Lieutenant George
Blathwayt for shares, including sale of stock for purchase of equipment as a
Cornet in the 23rd Light Dragoons, 1814
D1799/F40
1807
Copy of a letter from Colonel W. Fullerton to HRH the Duke of York for the
prosecution of Colonel Picton (afterwards, General Sir Thomas Picton, who
was killed at Waterloo) for allowing the use of torture in Trinidad when
military governor
D421/X11/39
1807
Commission to John Boulton as Ensign in the South Worcester Volunteer
Infantry
D2957/134
(5)
1807-1811
Correspondence of Lieutenant Dugald Gregorson on service at Colchester
(Essex), Kent and Gibraltar (uncatalogued)
D333
Box 25
1808-1812
Journal of Lieutenant D. Gregorson (uncatalogued)
D3330
Box 26
1809
Description of Sergeant Brobin of Newnham, deserter from the 82nd
Regiment, issued by the War Office
P228 CW 4/7
1809, 1831
Commission to A Stoughton as Captain in the Oxfordshire Militia and
certificate of service
D979B/F3
1811
Letter from Hugh Percy, Duke of Northumberland, to Captain Ellis of the
North Riding Yorkshire Militia offering to propose him to the Prince Regent
as Adjutant of the Northumberland Militia
D1022/30
1811-1815,
nd.
Commissions, 1811-15, photograph, undated, Major-General Roger
Williamson Wilson C.B. (uncatalogued)
D2025
Box 123
1811-1855
Papers concerning James Bucknall Bucknall Estcourt (1802-1855), his time
at Sandhurst and his commission; his expedition to navigate the Euphrates
and establish route from Mediterranean to India; his work as Commissioner
to survey and mark the USA/Canada border; his army service in the Crimea.
See also, the papers collected by his wife elating to his life, 1829-1887
[D1571/F495-505]
D1571/
F450-494
1813
Letter from the Duke of Northumberland to Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Lawson
promising to ask the prince Regent for a commission for him in the militia
D1022/31
1813
Commission of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Cother, 21st Highland Regiment
of Foot
D1233/36
c.1813
Memorandum of Rev Edward Southouse's return from period as chaplain to
the army in Sicily [Wotton-under-Edge]
P377 IN 1/7
1813-27
Papers of Captain Richard Barlow, army officer
D6528
1814
Accounts of Major General Pye
D6528
1815
Commission of George William Blathwayt as Lieutenant in the 23rd
Regiment of Light Dragoons
D1799/F41
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1816-1888
Papers relating to Thomas Commeline, including visit of the Duke of
Wellington to Gloucester in 1816 when Commeline was mayor, Lieutenant’s
commission in Glos. Rifle Volunteer Corps, 1860, and extract from The
Gloucester Journal on his retirement, 1888
D1233/37
1817
Death of an Englishman at a military hospital at Port Antonio, Jamaica
D5412/III/47
1817
Commission for William Warburton Huntley, gent. as Lieutenant in the 9th
Regiment Light Dragoons
D48/F29
1819
Copy affidavit of Henry Wilkinson Hardie on obtaining cadetship
D637/II/1/F1
c.1820
Biographical notes about General Sir Thomas Musgrave (1783-1814)
D2383/F6
1820, 1840
Commissions of Thomas Henry Kingscote as Captain in 2nd regiment of
Life Guards, 1820, and as Colonel Commandant of R. N. Gloucester, 1840
D471/X6
1822-1919
Biography of Colonel Walter Lascelles, 1874, with papers about army
commissions of various Lascelles men
D3549/36/1/1
1825
Letter from William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, concerning an ensigncy
for William Frederick Rooke in the 3rd Guards
D1833/F4/11
1825, 1827
Letters concerning the transfer of George Charles Rooke to the 3rd Guards
and his life in Portugal
D1833/
F4/12, 14
1825-1863
Papers concerning Colonel Cyprian Bridge including commissions, 1843-62,
service record, 1861, and microfilm concerning the New Zealand Maori
War, 1845
D2025
Box 113
1827
Papers regarding the dismissal of Lieutenant Jones from the North
Gloucester Militia and his trial at the Old Bailey for perjury and seduction
D471/X4
1830
Appointment of William H. Graves as Captain of the 18th or Royal Irish
Regiment of Foot, 1830; copy will of Captain Francis Amiel of Cheltenham
D3554
1830
Correspondence of C B Codrington regarding the debts of his son, Captain
Charles B Codrington of the Life Guards
D1610/C99103
(1830-1844)
Letter concerning the promotion of William Frederick Hill Rooke to a second
lieutenancy in the 60th Foot
D1833/F4/15
1832
Letter from and about Capt. A. Webster, in the Afghan War of 1830-44
D2025
Box 76
1834-37
Papers concerning Charles Pearce of Tewkesbury, including commission as
Lieutenant in the Corps of Gunner drivers, Royal Regiment of Artillery
D2638/26
1835
Letters from William Frederick Rooke describing life in North America
D1833/
F4/16,17,20
1835-1880
Papers concerning the military career of Major General Sir Francis Locker
Whitmore, including his service in the Crimea
D45/X8/1-14
1836-1843
Military notes and correspondence of Lieutenant Francis Wemyss of the
Bombay Engineers, 1836-43, and diaries relating army life,
1836-40
D36/
F42-45, 49
1839-1850
Army pay books of Thomas Bassett, 3rd Regiment of Foot [The Buffs],
including details of distinction award and letter to his wife on his discharge
D1908
1840-50
Soldier's pay book, 1840-50 and discharge certificates, 1849-50 belonging
to Thomas Price
D7438/1-2
- 217 -
1841-1882
Papers concerning the military career of General Sir Edmund Augustus
Whitmore
D45/X9/1-10
1841-1882
Letters from Colonel George William Blathwayt relating to his military
service in Canada
D1799/C27
1843-1929
Army records of the Worlock family of Codrington
D3979/4-14
1845
Marriage settlement of Captain Rundle Burges Watson RN
D8474/1
1848
Commission of George William Blathwayt as Captain in the 1st Regiment of
Dragoon Guards
D1799/F55
1849,
1854-56
Papers concerning the admission of Henry Mitford to the Royal Military
Academy, Sandhurst and to his time in the Crimea
D2002/4/1,4
1852
The Illustrated London News Supplement on the Life of the Duke of
Wellington, 18 September
D2218/3/61
1855
Administration granted to Mary Anne Kirby of the estate of her son, Franklin
Knight Kirby, “late a Lieutenant in Her Majesty’s 93rd regiment of Foot at
Balaclava in the Crimea, Bachelor”
D2780
1855-1859
Papers concerning the military career of Major General Stoddard Whitmore,
principally in relation to service with the Turkish contingent in the Crimean
War
D45 X10/1-4
1857-1860
Journal of Edward B Hale, Lieutenant Colonel Of the 82nd Regiment, of his
voyages to and from India on HMS Adventure, with some account of a
military expedition on arrival. Also, letters to Colonel Hale from army HQ
during the campaign, with press cuttings
D1086/
F188-189
1859
Copy of letter about Dr. Chalmer’s uniform and sword as a Lieutenant and
chaplain in the 2nd Fife Local militia
D1021/3/3
1859
Appointment of Frank Heskins Winterbotham of Cheltenham as an Ensign
D5731/3/7/2
c.1860
Obituary of General Thomas Taylor, Colonel of the 5th Bengal Light Infantry
D245/V10
c.1860 –
c.1875
Photographs of General Sir Daniel Lysons, his first and second wives, and
his sons
D8460/7/2/1
1862
Commission of R N F Kingscote as Honorary Colonel of the Royal North
Gloucester Regiment of Militia
D471/X7
1862
Commissions of Colonel Thomas W C Master in the Royal North
Gloucestershire Regiment and the 9th Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteer
Corps
D674b/F49
1864
Testimonial from the Dodington Squadron on the death of C. William
Codrington
D1610/F44
1868
Papers relating to the command of Sebastian Dickinson of 5th Glos. Rifle
Volunteer Corps
D6/X4/2
1869
Descriptive report on a deserter from the Foot Guards
D1070/IV/4
1870-71
From Poona to Ahmedabad by Road 1870-1871- illustrated account by
Colonel J H G Browne, serving in India, with photograph of him in uniform
D6919/6/2
1871
Obituary of Colonel George W Blathwayt
D2659/107
1873-1914
Diaries of Lieutenant Colonel Linley Wynter Blathwayt
D2659/21
- 218 -
1879
Certificate of appointment of Lionel Darell as Captain in the Yeomanry
D228/F2
c.1879
Portrait photograph of Colonel Henry Lysons VC
D8460/7/2/1
1879-1921
Correspondence and papers relating to the admission of Percival Scrope
Marling to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1879-80, and to various
military matters, 1880-1921
D873/
C111-112
1882
Copy will of Captain Francis Amiel of Cheltenham
D3554
1882
Letters from the War Office concerning the death of Private T. Woodward,
Grenadier Guards
D471/F12
1882-1900
Papers relating to General Sir Daniel Lysons (1816-1898) and his son
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lysons VC (1858-1907): their correspondence,
1882-1900; Early Reminiscences by General Lysons (including preparations
for the Crimean War); an account entitled My Journey to Jerusalem and
back (probably by Henry, undated)
D8460/
3/1/1-2
1884
Appointment of Frederick Tyerman as an officer in the 2nd South Middlesex
Rifle Volunteer Corps
D2762/X2
1887
Appointment of H.C. Thurston as army surgeon (uncatalogued)
D1578
1893-1913
Military records of a U.S. army soldier
D3789
Box 13
Late 19th
century
Studio portrait of Charles Curtis of Kilcot, in uniform
GPS 601/75
1898, 1902
Charles Hitch of Notting Hill: Certificates of discharge from 2nd Battalion,
Middlesex Regiment
D4920/2/1/27
1900
An account of Major Percival Scrope Marling of the 18th Hussars, “a V.C.
hero”, in the Penny Pictorial Magazine, with other papers relating to him. He
won the VC in the Sudan on 31st March 1884 while in the 3rd Battalion,
King’s Royal Rifle Corps
D5530/2/3-6
1900-10
Photograph of Michael G. Lloyd-Baker in camp
D3549/33/2/1
1901
Information relating to the appointment of Colonel Henry Lysons VC to the
1st Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment
D8460/7/3/7
1903-14
“Small book” of Henry Charles Smith of Quedgeley
D4660/1
1904
Notes on cavalry manoeuvres by Arthur Lloyd-Baker and photographs of
Arthur and Michael on Salisbury Plain
D3549 31/1/8
c.1905
A.L. Graham-Clarke as Lieutenant Colonel R.A. (he served with RGH in the
Boer War)
D4920 2/1/51
1906-82
Papers relating to William Peat's military career [Great Witcombe with
Bentham]
P373 MI 3
1908, 1924
Letter concerning the resignation of Private G L N Rutter from the army,
1908; mention in list of Old Cuthbertians as serving in World War I, 1924
D4432/7/2-3
1909-21
Papers relating to the service of Harry Allen of Stone, Berkeley, in the Royal
Garrison Artillery
D10450
c.1910-17
Obituary notices for Major Daniel Lysons, c.1910, Major Nigel Lucius
Samuel Lysons, 1915, Colonel Edward Hicks-Beach Lysons, 1916 and
Colonel Lorenzo George Lysons, 1917
D8460/7/3/7
- 219 -
1911-19
Papers of Captain E.T. Sotheron-Estcourt as Assistant Military Secretary to
G.O. Commanding Forces, New Zealand
D1571/
F879, 882
1915-1919
Papers relating to Private Arthur Jones, RGH
D4920/
2/2/2/23
1916
Article in the Bath Herald about 2nd Lieutenant N V H Symons receiving the
Military Cross
D2659/
27/53/7
1917
Mention in dispatches for Sergeant P. Marfell, 16th Squadron Machine Gun
Corps
D4920/
2/2/2/43
1917-29
Commission of Arthur John Worlock as Second Lieutenant, Special
Reserve, Royal Field Artillery, with news cuttings of mentions in dispatches
and papers concerning disability and award
D3979/9-11
1917-22
Documents concerning the death of Trewern Henry Smith (killed in action in
1917)
D4190/40
1919
News cuttings referring to the award of an M.C. to Alfred Franklin Dean
Darlington
D5590/1
1932
Some experiences of a court-martial officer, by Theodore Hannam Clerk
D3398/2/2/64
1938
Appointment of Peter Henry Cookson as 2nd Lieutenant in the Territorial
Army
D4920/1/3/2
1938
Report on Captain Adam Trevor Smail, 11th Hussars
D4920/1/3/2
1940-1943
Correspondence of John Archer Cadwallader, who served with the New
Zealand Expeditionary Forces in Greece and the Middle East
D4500/2/3
1944-1946
Correspondence and diaries of Dr. Alfred Melville Cook of Gloucester, who
served with the Royal Artillery in the Orkneys, East Africa, India and the Far
East
D6885 2/3-4
c.1945
Letters to Corporal Robert Parsons [of the U.S. Army: fighter wing] about his
visits to the Cotswolds whilst on leave, with an account of his cycle tour
D8667/
1/1, 2/2
1946-48
Papers of Private E. Douglas Moore, of Tewkesbury, concerning his army
service
TBR D76
1953
Letter from the Mayor of Tewkesbury, requesting the demobilisation of A.J.
Jones, engine room artificer, Royal Fleet Reserve, and the reply from the
speaker of the House of Commons
TBR D78
1966
Papers and notes relating to various members of the Lysons family including
General Sir Daniel Lysons (1816-98) and Colonel Henry Lysons VC (18581907). Includes pedigree of Sir Daniel and cutting relating to his
appointment as Constable of the tower of London; transcript of news cutting
relating to award of the VC to Henry, 1879, and his obituary notice, 1907.
Also, obituary notice for Sergeant M C Lysons, killed in action c.1943
D8460/6/2
1979
Charles Jasper Selwyn: "Where duty leads": officer commanding Royal
Engineers, Grahams Town 1834-42, by Pamela Barnes
GE/328
1983
Obituary of Jack Lovell, Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, by Captain Jack
Summerell, RGH
D4920/
1/6/16/16
1983
Funeral oration by A P David on the death of Tom Whittington-Brown RN,
late of Hull and Headmaster of The Kings School, Gloucester
D8841/3/2
1985-1986
Research for work on an army surgeon who served during the Indian Mutiny
D4402/2/12
- 220 -
1987
The General: the travel memoirs of General Sir George Whitmore, ed. Joan
Johnson
ROL P2
1987
Unveiling of memorial to Captain Angus Buchanan VC in Coleford parish
church
D3921/VI/30
1988
The Wynter family, ed. Bryan Rendell
ROL F4
1997
John Collett and a company of foot guards, by Barbara Chambers
ROL D5
1998
African connections 1873-1943 by Henry Elwes
GE 339
n.d.
Royal Army Service Corps: Recollections of army training at Adlestrop, by
J.D. Ward, Private
PA 5/1
MISCELLANEOUS: UNITS
This section lists records held at Gloucestershire Archives relating to non-Gloucestershire or
unidentified regiments, battalions, etc.
1667
List of Captain Colchester's company in the Regiment of the Marquess of
Worcester
D36/F8/30
1684
Rate assessed for freeholders of Clearwell to furnish 20 foot soldiers to
serve in the duke of Beaufort’s regiment and for the provision of “Trophie
Money”
D421/F3
(1691)-1743
“Table of the several books of orders of the Coldstream Regiment”, 17201742
D1833/X5
1702
Appointment of an ensign in a Company of the Green Regiment of Militia
raised for service in Kiftsgate Hundred
D2079/III/30
1702-03
Letters concerning the conduct of Colonel Thomas Allen’s regiment in
Ireland
D1833/F7/3-4
1711
Muster roll of Brudenell Rice Rooke’s Company in Major General Hayman
Rooke’s Regiment
D1833/F4/2-3
1711-12
Muster roll and accounts for Major General Hayman Rooke’s own Company
in his Regiment of Foot
Muster book of Brudenell Rice Rooke's Company
D1833/F4/2-3
1720-42
Order book of the Coldstream Regiment. Includes General Cadogan's
order, 1715: “officers to oblige their men to let their hair grow, for no soldier
must appear under arms with a wigg”.
D1833/X5
1724
Letter concerning the movement of a regiment to Glos.
D326/F44
1728
Exercises for the Horse, Dragoons and Foot Forces, printed by John
Baskett (London)
D45/X6/1
1737
Account of review of regiments of foot
D1833/Z7/2
1745-46
Papers and accounts relating to Captain Bond's raising of Lord Berkeley's
Regiment
D2026/X42
1747
Letter with reference to Kerr’s Dragoons fighting in Flanders
D153/93
1711-12
- 221 -
D1833/F1/1
1763
A list of the intended army on the establishment of Ireland, with regiments,
commanders and numbers
D1022/16
1765-71
Accounts of Lieutenant General William Whitmore for equipping the 9th
Regiment of Foot
D45/X3
1777-78
Letters from Colonel D. Jones to Charles Rooke concerning the Guards,
London, 1777 and New York, 1778
D1833/
F3/14/1-3
1780
Coloured wash drawing of the 3rd Guards (now the Scots Guards)
encamped in St. James's Park, London
D1833/Z8
1790
Permit for a private in Captain Russel's Company of the 52nd Regiment to
travel from Dindeque to Trinchinapoly, India
S1022/25
1792
Letter concerning the confinement of two officers in the Coldstream Guards
D4582/3/24
1794-1805
Miscellaneous papers concerning the administration of the Malmesbury
Troop of the Wiltshire Yeomanry
D1571/X16-18
1797-1813
Letters of Colonel Charles Rooke concerning the Regiment of Windsor
Foresters, with a watercolour sketch of their standard
D1833/F3/2023
1800-1864
Correspondence, etc. relating to the Devizes Troop, Wiltshire
D1571/
X168-176
1803
Printed Parliamentary Acts concerning volunteers, etc.
D566/Z4
1803-50
Regimental and household accounts of paymaster, 9th Light Dragoons
D6919/14/1-2
1804-07
Minutes and letters of HM Paymaster General relating to the clothing of the
Royal Veteran Battalions
D421/X11/31
1806
Reference to a deserter, 43rd Regiment of Foot
P146 IN 1/3
1808
Army orders concerning the wearing of queues (plaits)
D45/X11/1
1810
Reference in the Letter Book of John Letal of Tetbury (page 44) to the 99th
Regiment “late returned from the West Indies where they lost great part of
the Regiment”
D2930/2
1813
Promise by the Duke of Northumberland concerning a commission in the
local militia
D1022/31
1813-27
Captain Richard Barlow, Deputy Purveyor to H.M. Forces and Paymaster to
the 22nd Regiment in Jamaica
D6528
1817
Commission of William Huntley as Lieutenant in the 9th Light Dragoons
D48/F29
1825
Letters concerning appointments of William Frederick Rooke and George
Charles Rooke to the 3rd Guards, and to the transfer of the 1st Battalion
from Ireland to London.
D1833/F4/1113
1825
Letters concerning the East India Military Calendar (uncatalogued)
D2025/
Box 39
1827
Copy will of Thomas Lovesy of Charlton Kings, Lieutenant in the Navy
D181/III/T15
1829
Sketch of a Sepoy of the 8th Regiment [Dragoon Guards?]
D6/F172/2
1830
Appointment of Robert M. Cockrayne as paymaster to the 35th (Sussex)
Regiment of Foot, commanded by Lieutenant General Sir Bernard Osward
D2202
Box 51
- 222 -
19th century
Details of the career of John Gwennap Hume, Major in the East India
Company's 10th Regiment of Native Infantry
D245/V9
mid-19th
century
Views of Kneller Hall [Royal Military School of Music]
D45/F66
1836
Printed rules of the Malmesbury Troop, Wiltshire
D1571/X173
1840-50
10th Regiment of Foot: Thomas Price of Chaceley. Account book, discharge
certificate and admittance as an out-pensioner, Chelsea
D7438/1, 2
1844-98
Malmesbury Troop, Wiltshire: commissions in the yeomanry
D1571/
X184, 189
1851
Letter from the Earl of Ellenborough concerning the conduct of the 26th
Regiment of Native Infantry at Peshawar, India, in 1842
D5130/40
1855, n.d.
Warrant appointing Charles Cooch as Captain in the 62nd Regiment of
Foot, 1855, photograph as Colonel, n.d.
D5371/1
1857
Accounts of the 44th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry (uncatalogued)
D2025
Box 116
1861
Letter from Florence Nightingale to Thomas H Sotheron-Estcourt thanking
him for a copy of the Report of the Herbert Memorial Committee and
returning it with amendments
D1571/X202
19th century
Programme for the 1st Royal East Middlesex Militia Sports Day
D2079/II3/F1
c.1900-1905
Photograph album, 7th Dragoon Guards pre-1900 and Hussars,
1900-1905
D1969/Z4
c.1901
Photograph of the 2nd Gloucester Engineers Volunteers
D7059
(1909-11)
Winter training programme for the 16th Lancers
D4920/2/1/63
c.1914
Photographs and postcards of the Loyal North Lancashire Territorials
billeted at Sodbury
D6822/110
1915
Churchdown Volunteers and the Churchdown platoon of the Gloucestershire
Volunteer Regiment
D3398/2/2/21
1915-17
Lydney Volunteer Corps. minutes
D5627/7/6
1916
Photographs of 494 Royal Army Service Corps at Chipping Sodbury
D6822/110
1916
Letter from officer in the Army Remount Service [Berkeley]
P42 CW 3/25
c.1916
Description of disbanding of the 23rd Lancers at Weymouth and list of
members of the 23rd Lancer Club
D1799/F42-43
1916-18
Muster roll, Platoon 20, E Co., Glos. and Cheltenham Battalion, Glos.
Volunteer Regiment
P112a MI 1
1917
Article in the Bath Herald about the 2nd Volunteer regiment training on
Lansdowne
D2659/
27/53/8
1917-21
Service records with the Royal Engineers, Royal Flying Corps, and Royal Air
Force
D4084/
Box 61/7
1918
Article in the Bath Herald about the 2nd Battalion Somerset Volunteer
Regiment
D2659/
27/53/10
- 223 -
1918-19
Hospital and demobilisation records of a private soldier in the Royal
Warwickshire Regiment
D5132/1-2
1919
Photograph of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars at Aldershot
GPS 613/13
1920
The first Buckinghamshire Battalion, 1914-1919, by P.L. Wright
ROL B5
c.1920
Postcard view of Horse Guards on parade in Cirencester Park
GPS 86/173
1921
Photograph of Indian Army Bandsmen visiting Clifton College
GPS 613/30
1928
Pictorial record of the 12th Royal Lancers in Egypt
D4920 2/3/18
1936
The Observer Corps. Organisation handbook
Q/Y 7/27
1943
Snapshots of 9th Armoured Brigade parade
D4920/2/4/3/2
[1943-44]
Scenes of life at Slimbridge potato harvesting camp at New Grounds,
including Italian prisoners of war
D5852/1/3
1944
Photograph of men and tanks, Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, before sailing for
Egypt
Christmas card from 43rd Reconnaissance Regiment, RAC
D4920/2/4/3/2
1965
Photograph of the 11th Hussars guidon parade and 250th anniversary,
Hohne, Germany
D4920/8/13
1965, 1969
Corps of drums of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Regiment recorded at the Stroud
show by June Turner of the Cotswold Tape Recording Society; and later.
D6112
[tapes 29, 58]
1968
Band of the Royal Corps of Signals recorded on tape
D6112
[tapes 46, 49]
1972
Papers concerning the performance of the Royal Artillery display team at the
Cotswold Charity Steam Spectacular & Show in Cheltenham
D68728/11
1992
9th Light Dragoons: Captain Chapman's Accounts 1803-1850, by Michael
Browne
D6919/14/3
1997
John Collett and a company of foot guards, by Barbara Chambers
ROL D5
n.d.
Account of the distribution of pay of commissioned and non-commissioned
officers and private men in a regiment of foot
D1833/F7/1
n.d.
Royal Army Service Corps: Recollections of army training at Adlestrop, by
J.D. Ward
PA5/1
1945
D5731/3/10/9
THE BRITISH LEGION
1917-31
Papers concerning the transfer of the Gloucestershire POWs Fund to the
Gloucestershire Branch of the British Legion
CC/V5/2
1934
News cuttings and papers regarding arrangements for the Remembrance
Day Parade & Service [British Legion, Gloucester]
D3398/2/2/38
1945
Conversion of No. 6, Silver Street to a house, lock-up shop and club for the
British Legion [Tetbury]
DA36/
710/2/191
1946-47
Proposed annex to and re-roofing of the British Legion hut, Avening
[Tetbury]
DA36/
710/2/88, 201
- 224 -
c.1950
Photograph of British Legion Armistice Day parade, Tockington Green,
Olveston
D2604/2/69
1960s
Essay by Olveston Parish Historical Society on the British Legion
D2604/1
1963-72
British Legion scrapbook [Tewkesbury]
TBR D81
c.1940-44
A B Lloyd Baker’s papers about the British Legion Club, Hardwicke & District
D3549/
33/4/19
MISCELLANEOUS: OTHER
1662
Financial relief for married soldiers
TRS/54
1662-63
Papers concerning the maintenance of foot soldiers in Ireland
D2522/10-12
1684
Printed Army List with descriptions of regimental dress and an account of
the review on Putney Heath, 1684
D1833/Z7/1
1691
Abstract of pay and subsistence due to the forces in England
D1833/F7/2
1696
Warrant to hold courts martial
D1833/X1
1728
Drill book
D45/X6/1
c.1733-35
References to payments to soldiers and sailors passing through Brimpsfield
parish]
P58 CW 2/1
1737
Fog’s Weekly Journal (16 July) giving an account of the review of regiments
of foot
D1833/Z7/2
1744-46
Bill from Matthew Feesey, sword cutler, for sword, scabbard and belt, to
Honorary Colonel Vane
D2002/A15
1766
Bill to the Constable of Cheltenham for the removal of soldiers, Badgeworth
Q/SR 1766 B
1767
Returns of H.M. forces serving in Great Britain, Gibraltar, Minorca, Africa,
North America and the West Indies
D45/X15
1772-1833
References in the records of the Society of Friends to opposition to war and
their disowning of members enlisting as soldiers
D1340/
B1, M2,4
1778
Authority to hold courts martial, signed by Warren Hastings (uncatalogued)
D2025
Box 67
1779
Promise to dispose of insignia
D214/F7
1789
Description in a letter of a riot in Dublin after soldiers were called out to
disperse a bull-baiting crowd
D214/F1/93
1790
Permit signed by Colonel Corry for Archibald McDonald, a private in Captain
Russel’s company of the 52nd regiment, to go to Trinchinopoly from
Dindeque
D1022/25
1790-91
Description of operations by Lord Cornwallis against Tippoo Sultan
D2091/F12
1804
Printed general orders for infantry drill and exercises
D45/X24
1804
Petition of Edward Gilbert of Portsmouth, watch maker, to Parliament with
scheme to reduce cost of war by an improved use of artillery
D421/X11/41
- 225 -
1816-49
Opinion of modern statesmen on standing armaments (uncatalogued)
D1548/8/3
1821-26
Letters describing army life and conditions in Ireland, Gibraltar and Spain
D1571/F451
1824
War Office list of deserters, printed on back of the Hue and Cry Gazette
D7823/9/9
1825
Printed form for enquiries concerning missing soldiers
D2685/30
1825
Letter from E. Johns describing life on a military station near Calcutta, India,
and the journey there from England
D866/F30
1826-29
Letters relating to military affairs addressed to Captain George Blathwayt at
Magherafelt, Ireland
D1799/F45
1828-31
Notes on the emigration, transportation, imprisonment and joining of the
army by fathers of illegitimate children
P47 OV 5/7
1840
Illustrations from the Naval and Military Almanac
D4432/5/1
1840
Printed list of army deserters
D4693/15
1841-42
An account of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in General Sir George
Whitmore’s Reflections
D45/F46
c.1843
List of clothing and equipment for cadets departing for India or other
colonies
D1815
Box 20/7
1857-1964
Royal Military School of Music: notebook used latterly by Major General
Francis Locker Whitmore as Commandant of the school
D45/X8/3
Mid-19th
cent.
1862
Notes on military strategy
D45/X8/3
Quartering of soldiers in inns
Q/Y 7/3
1865
Election address concerning flogging in the army
TBR E39
1875
Parliamentary returns, including expenses of apprehending deserters
Q/CR/33-38
1875
Some Surgical Experiences in military hospitals in Japan by J B Siddall MD
D2002/7/3/4
1883
Photograph of soldiers marching near Stinchcombe Hill
D4611/3/21
1893-1913
Military records of soldier in the U.S. Army (uncatalogued)
D3789
Box 13
1894
Agreement to erect a memorial cross on the site of Winchcombe Abbey
(uncatalogued)
D2579
Box 28
1899
Posters advertising the Tewkesbury Soldiers and Sailors Families
Association
TBR
E26/5, E27/15
1899
Minutes of the Tewkesbury Soldiers and Sailors Families Association
TBR E26/4
pre-1900
Photograph of soldier in uniform, Aldershot barracks
D4175/1
1900-13
Papers regarding Sneedham’s Green Rifle Range, Upton St. Leonards,
including agreements for use by the Volunteer Battalion of the
Gloucestershire regiment, 1905-06
CC/AC/
C2/3-11
1900-14
Papers relating to various funds, including the Soldiers' and Sailors' Families
Association (uncatalogued)
D4084/
Box17
bundle 8
- 226 -
1900-22
Petty Sessions explosives register
PS/CH
1900-24
Director of Forestry for England: Forest of Dean. Correspondence & papers
concerning rifle ranges, 1900-24, rifle drill for Crown workmen, 1902, military
manoeuvres in the Forest, 1910-14, and sale of Wood Distillation works to
the War Department, 1911-26
D9096/
F3/848,869,
1198, 1429
1901
County Council report to consider rifle range near Gloucester
GBR L6/29/B1
1904-09
Military reports on the state of the German army, 1904, events in South
Africa, 1909, army manoeuvres, 1909
D873/F69
1905
Infantry training
Q/Y 7/13
(1909)
Photograph of cavalry passing through Lechlade during army manoeuvres
GPS 197/128
1911
Bisley prize for shooting donated by the British Women's Patriotic League
D4380/2/5
1915
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: guarantee to the War
Office concerning contract for 300 timber wagons
D4791/13/14
1922-42
Undertaking in connection with the employment of ex-servicemen
GBR
L6/23/B284
c.1924-79
Pupils of forces stationed in Beachley/Sedbury area attending Tutshill
Church of England School
S333/4/6-9
1925-31
Armed forces identity card
DA438/298/1
1929
Army certificates of education
P373 MI 3
1932
Minutes of the Barton Street Working Men’s Club concerning the
undesirability of giving publicity to a military tattoo in Tredworth
Papers of Sir (Charles) Percy Lister relating to his wartime activities as a
director of the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation
D9008/1/10
1943-46
Architectural plans, etc., Cheltenham Services Club (uncatalogued)
D5587
Box 26
1946
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Drawing Office
Requisition books: Ministry of Supply – spares for Warflat wagons
D4791/
21/511A
1951-52
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Drawing Office
Requisition books: Ministry of Supply – heavy girder bridge components
D4791/
21/511A
1952
Mr R L Staynor’s notes on the possible site of a tenth century battle at
Bromsberrow
D7547//3/16
1952-56
Schemes to induce boys to defer from National Service, issued within the
minutes of the Local Employment Committee, Forest of Dean District
D8281/1/1
1959
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Drawing Office
Requisition books: War Office – heavy ferry buoyancy pontoons
D4791/
21/578A
1960-61
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Drawing Office
Requisition books: War Office – 54 propulsion pontoons (heavy ferry) and
various spares
D4791/
20/L123
1963
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Engineering drawings:
War Office – flat wagons
D4791/24/56
1967
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Ministry of Defence assault trackway outfit for the U.S. Army
D4791/19/28
1940-43
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D3310/7
1967-68
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Ministry of Defence pallet wagons
D4791/24/62
1972, 1976,
1980
Muir Hill [E Boydell & Co.] – manufacturers of dumper trucks: film showing
military vehicles; including army bulldozer at Gloucester, 1972
D4557/
4/4,8,10
1978
Paperwork for Muir Hill stand at the British army equipment exhibition
D4557/11/3/16
1974
Motor cycle display team, Royal Artillery
D6872/2/9
1998
African Connections, 1873-1943, compiled by H.W.G. Elwes (photocopy)
GE/339
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SEARCHING ANCESTORS THROUGH MILITARY RECORDS
by Paul Davidson
Many of the records already described and held at this office will be of obvious use to the
family historian. These include muster rolls and militia lists, references to the families of
militiamen and militia substitutes receiving parish poor relief, regimental description books
and casualty lists, and parish rolls of honour for the First and Second World Wars.
The Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum holds a description book for the Gloucestershire
Regiment, 1849-60, as well as regimental newsletters and journals of record, a list of
obituaries, a schedule of casualties in the two World Wars and Korean War, etc. (see under
“Gloucestershire Regiment”).
However, the core military records for family history are as follows:
1. Officers prior to 1914:
Army Lists, 1702-present, available at The National Archives, National Army Museum
(incomplete run), Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum and various other local
repositories and libraries; these list all officers by regiment.
Returns of service, compiled by the War Office from the early 19th century and
available at The National Archives.
Commander-in-Chief’s memoranda held at The National Archives These include the
appointment, promotion and resignation of officers.
Records of the War Office and Paymaster-General relating to the provision of
pensions to officers’ widows and wounded officers, available at The National
Archives.
Registers of cadets who trained at the Royal Military Academies, 1790-1946, available
at The National Archives.
The National Archives also holds a great deal of other useful material, including the
following:
Commission books, 1660-1873
Applications for commissions by officers of British and Indian establishment, c1871-91
Trials of commissioned officers, 1688-1986
2. Other ranks, prior to 1914:
The main source of information is the relevant regimental museum. If you are unsure of the
regiment, the following should be consulted:
Certificates of registration of births, marriages and deaths, dating from the introduction
of civil registration in 1837. These sometimes indicate a person’s regiment. Indexes
are available at the Family Records Centre or copies may be held locally, using which
orders can be placed for the actual certificates.
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Census Returns, taken every 10 years from the early 19th century. However, the national
returns only include names from 1841 and there is a 100-year closure period. The census
returns, 1841-1901, for the whole of the United Kingdom are available through the Ancestry
website (www.ancestry.com), which is a pay-to-view site, but some local authorities have
bought a Library Subscription to the site so that it can be used free-of-charge in local
libraries. More information about locally based online access to the census returns is given in
the Genuki website (http://www.genuki.org.uk/)
Regimental registers, 1761-1924, recording births, baptisms, marriages and burials of
soldiers or their families; the Army Chaplains’ Department lists similar information for
soldiers serving overseas. These records are held at the Family Records Centre.
The National Archives' relevant holdings include the following:
Army medal rolls, 1793-1902,
Service returns: discharges, 1783-1810
Service return, 1806
Muster Master General’s Index of casualties, 1797-1817
Index to casualty returns, 1810-40
Royal Hospital Chelsea pension returns, 1842-62
Chelsea registers of out-pensioners, c1820-75
Out-pensions: pension admission books, 1715-1913
In-pensions records, 1702-1917
Registers of courts martial, 1796-1963
Regimental musters, 1732-1878
Various description books and pay lists
Discharge papers, 1760-1913
Lists and accounts of British prisoners of war in France, etc., 1793-1815
Other useful records include militia attestation forms, the declarations signed by new
recruits, 1806-1915.
3. Officers and other ranks, 1914-20
In addition to the appropriate regimental archive the following organisations should be
consulted:
The National Archives
Over 6 million “other ranks” served in the army during the First World War.
Unfortunately most service records were destroyed by enemy bombing in 1940.
Around 2 million service records either survived the attentions of the Luftwaffe
(preserved in class WO 363) or have been reconstructed from pension records (class
WO 364). Other useful records held by The National Archives include Army medal
rolls, 1914-18, the Index to gallantry medal awards published in the London Gazette,
an Index to the Victoria Cross Register, 1914-20 and a List of officers held as
prisoners of war, 1914-18.
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Information on the location of war graves and memorials world-wide is held by the
Commission, which also holds details on its Debt of Honour Register of all service
personnel who died in the First and Second World Wars.
Useful published lists include British Army Mutineers, 1914-1922 by J. Putkowski (1998) and
Death Sentences passed by the Military Courts of the British Army, 1914-24 by G. Ora, and
J. Putkowski (1998).
4. Officers and other ranks, 1920 onwards
Start with the relevant regimental archive, or consider the following:
The Army Records Centre: for records of all soldiers no longer serving, including
officers serving after 1922 until the mid-1990s and other ranks serving after 1920 until
the mid-1990s.
The Army Personnel Centre for records of soldiers still serving.
The National Army Museum: houses a large library, which includes the Army List and
the London Gazette. It also holds records, 1901-60 relating to soldiers’ estates and
giving frequent details of next-of-kin.
The Army Medal Office: for the issue and replacement of medals.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission: for information on war graves,
memorials and details of soldiers who died in both World Wars, including its Debt of
Honour Register.
The Ministry of Defence: for soldiers who died outside the dates of the World Wars,
details about their burial places, with possible references to the wives and children of
soldiers who died overseas.
The International Committee of the Red Cross: for a list of prisoners of war 1939-45.
Gloucestershire Archives has a copy of TNA’s publication Army Records for Family
Historians by S. Fowler & W. Spencer, 1998, available for reference in the Searchroom
Library (H17).
5. Royal Navy
Researchers may find Using Navy Records (PRO Pocket Guide to Family History) by B.
Pappalardo, 2001, and Tracing Your Naval Ancestors, also by B. Pappalardo, 2003, useful.
Copies are available for reference in the Searchroom Library (ROL H17).
The Navy List (Steele's from 1782 and the official list from 1814) held at The National
Archives will provide the basic outline of an officer's career. In addition, TNA holds Registers
of Officers' Services, 1756-1966 (class ADM 196), Returns of Officers' Service, 1817 and
1846 (class ADM 9) and Passing certificates, 1691-1902 (classes ADM 6, 13 and 107). Prior
to 1853, when the Royal Navy began to keep a service record for each individual, it is
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difficult to trace career information on naval ratings. If the name of his ship, and approximate
dates of service on this, are known, then ship musters and pay lists can be consulted. After
1853, The National Archives holds service registers, indexed by name, (in class ADM 139)
until 1923.
6. Royal Air Force and its associates
The National Archives holds the service records of both officers and airmen who fought in
the First World War, whether in the Army's Royal Flying Corps (RFC) or in the Royal Naval
Air Service (RNAS). Records of RFC officers, from 1914 to March 1918, are I class AIR 76,
RNAS officers in class ADM 273. For other ranks in this period, records of RFC personnel
are in WO 363 or WO364 or, if he continued in service, in AIR 79.
On 1st April 1918 these two bodies were amalgamated to form the Royal Air Force (RAF)
and a muster roll was compiled giving brief information on NCOs and airmen, copies of
which are in AIR 1 and AIR 10. RAF officers' records can then be found in alphabetical order
class AIR 76 and those of other ranks in service number order class AIR 79 (with an index to
service numbers in class AIR 78). Records of RAF personnel from the mid-1920s onwards
are still held by the RAF.
Gloucestershire Archives has a copy of TNA’s publication Air Force Records for Family
Historians by W. Spencer, 2000, available for reference in the searchroom Library (H17).
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APPENDICES
1
Gloucestershire Voluntary Artillery and Infantry units 1795-1815
(from “Gloucestershire Volunteers, 1795-1815”, by Brigadier H. Bullock, CIE, OBE, in the
Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research (1960) Vol. 35, No. 154)
Badminton Volunteer Infantry
1803
Merged in Royal Gloucester
Berkeley Volunteer Artillery
1803
Disbanded 1808
Berkeley Volunteer Infantry
1803
Disbanded 1808
Bibury Volunteer Infantry
1803
Later merged in Brightwells Barrow
Bristol Volunteer Infantry
1797
Disbanded 1802
Royal Bristol Volunteer Artillery
1803
Disbanded 1808?
Royal Bristol Volunteer Infantry
1803
Disbanded 1814
Brightwells Barrow Hundred Volunteer Infantry
1803?
Cheltenham Volunteer Infantry
1798
Loyal Cheltenham Volunteer Infantry
1803
Cirencester Associated Volunteer Infantry
1798
Clifton Volunteer Infantry
1803
Merged in March 1804
Coln St. Aldwyn, Hatherop and Quenington Volunteer Infantry
1803
Merged in Brightwells Barrow
Loyal Cotswold Volunteer Infantry
1803
Dodington Volunteer Infantry
1803
Dudbridge Volunteer Infantry
1803
Dursley Volunteer Infantry
1803
Dyrham Volunteer Infantry
1803
Merged in Royal Gloucester
Fairford Volunteer Infantry
1803
Merged in Brightwells Barrow
Farmington Volunteer Infantry
1803
Frampton-on-Severn Volunteer Infantry
1798
City of Gloucester Volunteer Infantry
1803
Royal Gloucester Volunteer Infantry
1798
Royal Gloucester Volunteer Infantry
1803
Disbanded 1808
Grimbalds Ash Volunteer Infantry
1803
Merged in Royal Gloucester
Hawkesbury Volunteer Infantry
1803
Merged in Royal Gloucester
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Disbanded 1802
Merged in Royal Gloucester
Disbanded 1814
Loyal Henbury Volunteer Infantry
1803
Horsley Volunteer Infantry
1798
Horsley Volunteer Infantry
1803
Iron Acton Volunteer Infantry
1803
Kings Stanley Volunteer Infantry
1798
Loyal King Stanley Riflemen
1803
Lechlade Volunteer Infantry
1804
Lodgemore Volunteer Infantry
1798
Loyal Longtree Volunteer Infantry
1798
Marshfield Volunteer Infantry
1803
Minchinhampton Rifles
1803
Northleach Volunteer Infantry
1803
Painswick Associated Volunteer Infantry
1798
Rodborough Volunteer Infantry
1803
Rooksmoor Volunteer Infantry
1803
Severn Riflemen
1798
Severn Riflemen
1803
Sodbury Volunteer Infantry
1803
Somerset Riflemen
1803
Southrop Volunteer Infantry
1803
Stonehouse Volunteer Infantry
1803
Stow Volunteer Infantry
1798
Stow Volunteer Infantry
1803
Loyal Stroud Volunteer Infantry
1798
Stroud Riflemen
1798
Stroud and Friendsbury Volunteer Infantry
1798
Stroudwater Volunteer Infantry
1803
Tetbury and Horsley (Longtree Hundred) Volunteer Infantry
1803
Royal Tewkesbury Volunteer Infantry
1798
Tewkesbury Volunteer Infantry
1803
Tockington Volunteer Infantry
1803
Tortworth Volunteer Infantry
1803
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1802?
Merged in Brightwells Barrow
Merged in Royal Gloucester
Merged in Brightwells Barrow
Disbanded 1808-09
Uley Associated Volunteer Infantry
1798
Uley Volunteer Infantry
1803
Westbury Associated Volunteer Infantry
1789
Westbury-on-Severn Volunteer Infantry
1803
Loyal Westbury [-on-Trym] Volunteer Infantry
1803
Loyal United Westbury [-on-Trym] and Clifton Volunteer
Infantry
1804
Winchcombe and Sudeley Loyal Volunteer Infantry
1798
Winchcombe Volunteer Infantry
1803
Withington Volunteer Infantry
1803
Wotton-under-Edge and Wortley Volunteer Infantry
1803
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Merged in March 1804
2. Gloucestershire Voluntary Yeomanry Cavalry units 1795-1830
(from The Yeomanry Cavalry of Gloucestershire and Monmouth by W.H. Wyndham Quin
(1898))
Raised
1795
Cheltenham
Minchinhampton
Wotton-under-Edge
1796
Stow-on-the-Wold
Henbury
Gloucester
Bristol
1797
Longtree, Bisley and Whitstone
1803
Stow
Bristol
Cirencester
Dursley
Gloucester
Grimbalds Ash
Longtree, Bisley and Whitstone
Tewkesbury
Tortworth
Winterbourne
Monmouth (inc. Chepstow)
Cheltenham
1830
Dodington and Marshfield
Fairford and Cirencester
Stroudwater
Tetbury
Gloucester
Bristol
Winterbourne and Stapleton
Alveston
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3. The Gloucestershire Regiment’s service
Locations (regular battalions only)
28th Foot
West Indies
Newfoundland
Ireland
Flanders
Portugal and Spain
England
Vigo, Spain
Ireland
England
Flanders
Ireland
North America and Canada
West Indies
England
North America
West Indies
England
Scotland
Ireland
Channel Islands
Flanders
England
West Indies/Gibraltar
Minorca
Mediterranean
Egypt
England
Ireland
North Germany
England
Denmark
Sweden, Portugal and Spain
England and Netherlands
Portugal and Spain
S. France and Ireland
Belgium and France
England
Malta
Ionian Isles, Greece
Ireland
England
New South Wales, Australia
India
England
Malta and Turkey
Crimea
Malta
India
England
Ireland
Gibraltar
Malta
Hong Kong
Singapore
Ireland
1694
1697
1702
1704
1707
1708
1719
1720
1742
1743
1745
1757
1761
1773
1775
1778
1783
1784
1786
1793
1794
1795
1796
1798
1799
1801
1803
1804
1805
1806
1807
1808
1809
1810
1814
1815
1816
1817
1818
1829
1833
1835
1842
1848
1854
1854
1855
1858
1865
1866
1868
1872
1876
1878
1879
61st Foot
West Indies
England
Channel Islands
1759
1760
1761
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Ireland
Minorca
England
Ireland
Gibraltar
West Indies
England
Cape Colony, South Africa
Egypt
Malta
Italy
Sicily
Gibraltar
Portugal and Spain
Ireland
West Indies
England
Ireland
England
Ceylon
England
Ireland
India
Mauritius
England
Channel Islands
Ireland
Newfoundland
Bermuda
Nova Scotia
Ireland
Channel Islands
England
Malta
Baluchistan
1763
1771
1782
1783
1792
1794
1796
1799
1801
1803
1805
1806
1807
1809
1814
1816
1822
1824
1827
1828
1840
1843
1845
1859
1860
1863
1864
1865
1866
1870
1872
1875
1876
1878
1880
1st Battalion
Ireland
England
Ireland
England
Malta
Egypt
India
South Africa
Ceylon
India
England
(Bordon)
France and Flanders
England
Ireland
England and Germany
England
Egypt
Singapore
India
Burma
India
England
1881
1882
1888
1892
1893
1895
1897
1899
1900
1903
1910
1913
1914
1919
1920
1922
1923
1928
1931
1932
1938
1942
1947
2nd Battalion
Baluchistan
India
Aden
England
1881
1883
1893
1894
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1st Battalion (combined)
South Africa
England
Malta
China
France and Flanders
Greece and Macedonia
Bulgaria
Armenia, Russia and India
India
China
India
England
Egypt
England
North West Europe
England
North West Europe
Germany and England
Jamaica, Bermuda and British Honduras
1900
1904
1910
1913
1914
1916
1918
1919
1920
1927
1928
1929
1936
1937
1939
1940
1944
1946
1947
Jamaica
England and Korea
England
Kenya
Aden and Bahrain
Cyprus
Germany
England
Cyprus
England
1948
1950
1952
1955
1956
1957
1958
1960
1962
1965
Major battles
War
Battle
Date
Units/battalions involved
Spanish Succession
Spanish Succession
Spanish Succession
Spanish Succession
French and Indian
French and Indian
American, of Independence
French Revolutionary
Napoleonic
Napoleonic
Napoleonic
Napoleonic
Napoleonic
Napoleonic
Napoleonic
Napoleonic
Napoleonic
Napoleonic
(India)
(India)
Crimean
Indian Mutiny
Boer
Boer
Boer
First World
First World
Ramillies
Almanza
Tarragona
Fontenoy
Louisburg
Quebec
White Plains
Alexandria
Hanover
Copenhagen
Maida
Talavera
Toulouse
Barrosa
Albuera
Villefranque
Salamanca
Quatre Bras
?Poona
Chillianwallah
Sevastopol
Delhi
Reitfontein
Nicholson’s Nek
Paardeverg
Mons
Marne I
1706
1707
1707
1734
1758
1758
1775
1801
1805
1807
1806
1809
1814
1810
1810
1814
1812
1815
1842
1849
1854
1857
1899
1899
c1899-1902
1914
1914
28th Foot
28th Foot
28th Foot
28th Foot
28th Foot
28th Foot
28th Foot
28th Foot
28th Foot
28th Foot
61st Foot
61st Foot
61st Foot
28th Foot
28th Foot
28th/61st Foot
61st Foot
28th Foot
28th Foot
61st Foot
28th Foot
61st Foot
1st Battalion
1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
1st Battalion
1st Battalion
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First World
First World
First World
First World
First World
First World
First World
First World
First World
Second World
Second World
Second World
Second World
Second World
Second World
Korean
Korean
Aisne I
Ypres I
Ypres II
Loos
Somme I
Gallipoli
Vittorio Veneto
Roch Noir
Festubert
Dunkirk
Letpadan
Pinwe
Myitson
Le Havre
River Issel (Arnhem)
Hill 237
River Imjin
1914
1914
1915
1915
1916
1915-16
1918
1918
1918
1939
1942
1944
1945
1944
1945
1951
1951
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1st Battalion
1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
10th Battalion
1st Battalion
7th Battalion
4th, 5th and 6th Battalions
2nd Battalion
1st Battalion
2nd and 5th Battalions
1st Battalion
10th Battalion
10th Battalion
2nd Battalion
2nd Battalion
1st Battalion
1st Battalion
4. List of repositories and useful addresses
Airmail Magazine:
RAF Association, Central HQ, 43, Grove Park Road, London W4 3RU
Air Photo Library:
Department of Geography, University of Keele, Keele, Staffordshire ST5
5BG
Ministry of Defence, Main Building, Whitehall, London SW1A 2HB
Army Historical Branch:
Army Medal Office
Ministry of Defence, Government Buildings, Worcester Road, Droitwich
Spa, Worcestershire WR9 8AU
Army Personnel Centre:
Kentigern House, 65, Brown Street, Glasgow G2 8EX
Tel: (0141) 224 2023/3303
Fax: (0141) 224 2144
Army Records Centre:
Ministry of Defence DR2b, Bourne Avenue, Hayes, Middlesex UB3 1RF
Fax: 020-8573-9078
British Library:
96, Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
Website: http://www.bl.uk/
British Library Newspaper Library:
Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5HE
Tel: (020) 7412 7353
Fax: (020) 7412 7379
Website: http://www.bl.uk/
Commonwealth War Graves
Commission:
2, Marlow Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 7DX
Tel: (01628) 34221
Fax: (01628) 771208
Website: http://www.cwgc.org/cwgchome.htm
Department of Archives and
Aviation Records:
RAF Museum, Hendon, London NW9 5LL
Tel: (020) 8205 2266
Family Record Centre:
1, Myddelton Street, London EC17 1UW
Tel: (020) 7533 6400
General Register Office:
PO Box 2, Southport, Merseyside PR8 2JD
Tel: (0151) 4714800
Website: http://www.ons.gov.uk/
Gloucestershire Archives:
Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Gloucester, GL1 3DW
Tel: (01452) 425295
Fax: (01452 426378)
Website: http://archives.gloucestershire.gov.uk
Home Office, Constitutional (A)
Division:
Queen Anne’s Gate, London SW1H 9AT
Imperial War Museum:
Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ
Tel: (020) 7416 5000
Fax: (020) 7416 5374
Website: http://www.iwm.org.uk
International Committee of the
Red Cross, Archives Division
19, Avenue de la Paix, CH-1202, Geneva, Switzerland
The Legion (Magazine of the
Royal British Legion)
48, Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5JY
Tel: (020) 7973 7200
Fax: (020) 7973 7399
Website: http://www.britishlegion.org.uk
Ministry of Defence PS4 (A)
Building 43, Trenchard Lines, Upavon, Pewsey, Wiltshire SN9 6BE
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(Cas/Comp):
National Army Museum:
Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London SW3 4HT
Tel: (020) 7730 0717
Fax: (020) 7823 6573
Website: http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk
Oriental and Indian Office:
British Library, 96, Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
Website: http://www.bl.uk
PMA (CS) 2a (2):
RAF Innsworth, Gloucestershire GL3 1EZ
Public Record Office:
see The National Archives
Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire
and Wiltshire
Regiment(Salisbury) Museum
58, The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP1 2EX
Tel: (01722) 414536
Website: http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/research.html
Service Pals’ Teletext Limited:
PO Box 297, London SW6 1XT
Tel: (020) 7386 5000
Fax: (020) 7386 5618
Society of Genealogists:
14, Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA
Tel: (020) 7251 8799
Soldier Magazine:
Parson’s House, Ordnance Road, Aldershot, Hampshire GU11 2DU
Tel: (01252) 347351
Fax: (01252) 347358
Website: http://www.army.mod.uk/army/life/magazine/Nov98/mag_top.htm
Soldiers of Gloucestershire
Museum:
Gloucester Docks, Gloucester
Tel: (01452) 522682
Website: http://www.soldiersofglos.co.uk/
The National Archives:
Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU
Tel: (020) 8876 3444
Fax: (020) 8878 8905
Website: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
War Pensions Agency:
Norcross, Blackpool FY5 3WP
Tel: 0800 1692277
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5. Suggested websites
The British Army in the Great War:
http://www.1914-1918.net/checkin.htm
British Library - English Short Title Catalogue:
http://www.bl.uk/collections/early/holdingenglish.html
Britregiments:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/britregimnts/
Crimean War Research Society:
http://www.hargreave-mawson.demon.co.uk/cwrs1.html
GB Infantry Name Changes 1881:
http://www.tdrake.demon.co.uk/infantry.htm
Genuki (military history):
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/MilitaryHistory.html
The Great War Society:
http://www.worldwar1.com/tgws/
Land Forces of Britain, the Empire &
Commonwealth:
http://regiments.org/milhist/
Military History Research Index:
http://www.geocities.com/Rainforest/vines/2750/milhis.htm
Military Images:
http://www.capefam.freeserve.co.uk/militaryimages.htm
Officers Died (1750-1999):
http://redcoat.future.easyspace.com/
Port (the National Maritime Museum’s gateway to
maritime related information):
http://www.port.nmm.ac.uk/
The Seven Years War Website:
http://www.militaryheritage.com/7ywlink.htm
Victoria Cross:
http://www.2.prestel.co.uk/stewart/aalett.htm
(See also The National Archives site, which has a facility to search by name, rank, regiment, campaign and date
of act of bravery for which the individual was awarded the VC)
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